| LC control no. | sh 85110829 |
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| LC classification | PC901 PC949 |
| Topical heading | Raeto-Romance language |
| Variant(s) | Rhaetian language Rhaeto-Romance language Rhaeto-Romanic language Rhaeto-Romansh language Rheto-Romance language Rheto-Romansh language Romanche language Romansch language Romansh language Rumansch language Rumansh language Rumantsch language |
| See also | Romance languages |
| Found in | Am. herit. dict. of the Eng. lang., c2000 (Romansh also Romansch: The Rhaeto-Romance dialect that is an official language of Switzerland. Also called Ladin; Rhaeto-Romance: A group of three Romance dialects, including Romansh, spoken in southern Switzerland, northern Italy, and the Tyrol) Web. 3 (raeto-romance, var. of rhaeto-romance; rhaeto-romanic or rhaeto-romance or rhaeto-romansh or rheto-romance or rheto-romansh: a Romance language of eastern Switzerland, northeastern Italy, and adjacent parts of Austria; romansh or romansch or romanche or rumansch: the Rhaeto-Romanic dialects spoken in the Grisons, Switzerland; esp: those west of the Engadine; ladin: romansh) Ethnologue, via WWW, July 9, 2001 (Rheto-Romance (Rhaeto-Romance, Romansh, Romansch, Romanche, Rumantsch, Rhaetian) 40,000 in Switzerland, 0.6% of the population (1990 census). Borders of Austria, Italy; Graubünden (Grisons) Canton. Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Romance, Rheto-Romance. Dialects: Lower Engadine (Grisons), Upper Engadine, Oberland. Friulian, Ladin, and Romansch are separate languages (R.A. Hall, Jr., personal communication 1978). 78% lexical similarity with Italian and French, 76% with Catalan, 74% with Spanish, Sardinian, and Portuguese, 72% with Rumanian) |
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