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Rhaeto-Romanic
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Rhaeto-Romanic (rē`tō-rōmăn`ĭk), generic name for several related dialects of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages Romance languages, group of languages belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Italic languages). Also called Romanic, they are spoken by about 670 million people in many parts of the world, but chiefly in Europe and the Western
..... Click the link for more information. ). These dialects are now considered sufficiently similar to form a single unit in the Romance group. The principal Rhaeto-Romanic dialects are Romansh (or Romansch), Ladin, and Friulian. Romansh has about 70,000 speakers in SE Switzerland and is recognized in that country as a national, but "semi-official," language (German, French, and Italian are Switzerland's official languages). Ladin is the tongue of some 20,000 persons in the Italian Tyrol, and Friulian is spoken by approximately 500,000 in Friuli, a region of NE Italy.
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The family came back to Switzerland in 1906 and lived in Graubtinden in the eastern alpine-region, an area with strong Rhaeto-Romance tradition.
Scenes of Switzerland by Bomonti-Fetz, Barbara / PSA Journal
 
 
 
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