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Romansh

Romansh

Summary

Romansh is spoken by approximately 40,000 people, primarily in Switzerland, where it is recognized as a national language. A member of the Indo-European family, Romansh uses the Latin alphabet and features a fusional grammar with two genders and subject-verb-object (SVO) word order. Despite its small speaker base, Romansh has a rich literary tradition and is actively supported by cultural and governmental initiatives to preserve its use. (The Sursilvan variety of Romansh was used as a grammatical reference).

Stats

  • Language Family: Indo-European

  • Writing System: Latin

  • Writing System Type: Alphabet

  • Writing Direction: Left to Right

  • Tones / Pitch Accent: None

  • Morphology: Fusional

  • Cases: 0

  • Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 2

  • Number of Verb Tenses: 6

  • Word Order: Subject-Verb-Object (SVO)

  • Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 9

  • Number of Consonants: 24

Areas Where Spoken

  • Switzerland (official) (0.45%) (40 k)

Resources

Author Suggestions

  • Ursicin G.G. Derungs, Theo Candinas, Hubert Giger, Gion Deplazes and Leontina Lergier-Caviezel

Books

Dictionary

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Music Artists

  • Corin Curschellas (traditional folk with a touch of jazz singing in all Romansh languages)

  • Giganto (Sursilvan rap)

  • Astrid Alexandre (Sursilvan chanson)

  • Cha da Fö (Vallader jazz/blues)

  • Gino Carigiett (Sursilvan pop)

  • Conradin Klaiss (Sursilvan romantic pop)

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