In the territory of the <a href="http://www.alpconv.org/en/convention/default.html" target="_BLANK">Alpine Convention</a> which corresponds to the area under investigation of VerbaAlpina, different languages out of three <a target="_BLANK" href="?db=161&amp;tk=6">language families</a> traditionally are spoken. All of them are represented by dialectal continua whose degree of differentiation depends obviously also on their area of spread. The fragmentation of the Romance area is larger than the one of the Germanic area and the fragmentation of the German area is again larger than that of the Slavonic one. The relevant linguistic atlases inform about the dialectal conditions; the survey points of these atlases are being integrated to a full multilingual net in VerbaAlpina. Concerning the level of national languages or rather the regionally implemented minority languages, only the <b>Romania alpina</b> is subdivided further. Besides Italian that has official status in <a href="http://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/19995395/index.html#a4" target="_BLANK">Switzerland</a> and in <a href="http://www.camera.it/parlam/leggi/99482l.htm" target="_BLANK">Italy</a> and French that has official status in Switzerland, the following Romance languages enjoy political recognition: Occitan, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Proven%C3%A7al_language" target="_BLANK">Franco-Provençal</a> (or Arpitan, officialised in Aosta Valley), [Romansh|Gross 2004]], <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladin_language" target="_BLANK">Ladin</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friulian_language" target="_BLANK">Friulian</a>. The <b>Slavia alpina</b> and the <b>Germania alpina</b>, however, are represented by only one standard variety. But, regarding the pluricentric language German, it is necessary to distinguish coexisting national standard varieties at least for Switzerland, Germany and Austria.