Abstract
The article depicts a correspondence in spring 1992 between Prof. Dr. Hans Goebl, professor for Romance Linguistics at the Universität Salzburg, and Dr. Alois Mock, Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1987 till 1995. On 22nd of April 1992, the Italian government send a note verbale, in which the word „minoranza“ (minority) appeared in the singular and seemed to refer exclusively to the German minority in South Tyrol. Prof Goebl suggested not to speak about minoranza, but to speak about minoranze (minorities) to include the Ladin minority in South Tyrol in this forthcoming agreement too.