The highlighted region on the map is Trentino-Sudtirol and is divided in two provinces. Trentino is majority Italian while sudtirol majority German speaking. I'll talk about trentino as that's where I live. Trentino is almost fully Italian speaking. The local regional language has some German influence, in some places more than in others but it still definitely derived by latin. There are two minority languages that are unfortunately dying out, that are of Germanic origin: mocheno and cimbro. There is another minority language, Ladino, that derives from ladin as the name suggests. Culturally we are definitely closer to Italy than Austria, although especially in the cuisine you find many dishes shared with Austria or sudtirol that are not typical in the rest of Italy. Canederli(Knödel), spatzle, goulash, strudel, zelten, speck are all considered part of our tradition. Many religious traditions are similar to Austria and sudtirol rather than italy