But by the end of the century, the so-called "Central-Grisons language bridge" began to disappear.In order to halt the decline of Romansh, the Lia Rumantscha began establishing Romansh day care schools, called A key factor was the disinterest of the parents, whose main motivation for sending their children to the Scoletas appears to have been that they were looked after for a few hours and given a meal every day, rather than an interest in preserving Romansh.In other areas, such as the Engadine and the Surselva, where the pressure of German was equally strong, Romansh was maintained much better and remained a commonly spoken language. Recently coined Romansh name of unknown origin and meaning, although a Romansh variant of LORRAINE, a Romansh variant of Lorena and an elaboration of LAURA have been suggested. Words more particular to Romansh include Surs./ Suts. Since the cantonal constitution explicitly named Sursilvan and Engadinese as the languages of ballots, a referendum was launched to amend the relevant article.A major change in policy came in 2003, when the cantonal government proposed a number of spending cuts, including a proposal according to which new Romansh teaching materials would not be published except in Rumantsch Grischun from 2006 onwards, the logical result of which would be to abolish the regional varieties as languages of instruction. According to Mathias Kundert, while there was never a plan to Germanize the Romansh areas of Grisons, many German-speaking groups wished that the entire canton would become German-speaking. Nouns are not inflected for case in Romansh; the grammatical category is expressed through word order instead. Then, copy and paste the text into your bibliography or works cited list. The Romansh language area can be described best as consisting of two widely divergent varieties, Sursilvan in the west and the dialects of the Engadine in the east, with Sutsilvan and Surmiran forming a transition zone between them.One feature that separates the Rhenish varieties from Ladin is the retention of the rounded front vowels The dialects of Romansh are not always mutually comprehensible. In 1863, the first of several attempts was made to found an association for all Romansh regions, which eventually led to the foundation of the Around the same time, grammar and spelling guidelines began to be developed for the regional written dialects. History at your fingertips Catalan (autonym: català; ) is a Western Romance language derived from Vulgar Latin and named after the medieval Principality of Catalonia, in northeastern modern Spain. It is said to be a descendent of Vulgar Latin. Some Germanic loan words already entered the language in Late Antiquity or the Early Middle Ages, and they are often found in other Romance languages as well. Examples include pronouns such as Aside from outright loanwords, the German influence on Romansh often takes the form of Particularly common are combinations of verbs with Less integrated into the Romansh verbal system are constructions following the pattern of German also often serves as a model for the creation of new words.

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As late as 1984, the Canton of Grisons was ordered not to make entries into its corporate registry in Romansh.Grisons is the only canton of Switzerland where Romansh is recognized as an official language. In the Balkans there are Romanic people that have an ethnonym derived from "Romanus", including Aromanians (armâni, … Overall, Jean-Jacques Furer concludes that the shrinkage of the Romansh-speaking areas is continuing, though at different rates depending on the region.