RHAETO-ROMANIC

rēˈtō-rōmănˈĭk, generic name for several related dialects of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). 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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books on: Rhaeto Romanic  - 33 results

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The Languages of the World
Book by Kenneth Katzner; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Language And Languages
...Romanian Catalan, Provencal, Rhaeto-Romanic, Sardinian, Moldovan Celtic...nation, while Catalan, Provencal, Rhaeto- Romanic, and Sardinian are confined to...Luxembourgian 72 Rhaeto-Romanic 73 Icelandic 74...
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Nations without States: A Historical Dictionary of Contemporary National Movements
Book by James Minahan; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Nationalism--History--20th Century, World Politics--1989-
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State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe: The Theory of Stein Rokkan
Book by Peter Flora, Stein Kuhnle, Derek Urwin, Stein Rokkan; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Comparative Government, Europe, Western--Politics And Government
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Minority Languages Today: A Selection from the Papers Read at the First International Conference on Minority Languages Held at Glasgow University
Book by Einar Haugen, J. Derrick McClure, Derick Thomson; Edinburgh University Press, 1990
Subjects: Linguistic Minorities--Europe--Congresses
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Aspects of European Cultural Diversity
Book by Konrad Schröder, Bob Moon, Hans J. Kleinsteuber, Torsten Rossman, Volkert Wiesner, Wolfgang Kaschuba, Monica Shelley, Margaret Winck; Routledge, 1995
Subjects: Education--Europe--History--20th Century, Europe--Civilization--1945-, Europe--Languages--History--20th Century, Mass Media--Europe--History--20th Century
...provide a single text-book for Rhaeto-Romanic speakers in Switzerland, for instance...West Romanic branch: Italian, Rhaeto-Romanic, French, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese...language of an Irish national state), Rhaeto-Romanic, Icelandic, Letzeburgesh. How...
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journal articles on: Rhaeto Romanic  - 2 results

 
 
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Teaching and Learning in Early Childhood in German-Speaking Switzerland: A Case Study
Journal article by Wendy Marti-Bucknall; Childhood Education, Vol. 78, 2002
Subjects: Early childhood education--Switzerland, Education and state--Switzerland, Education policy--Switzerland, Switzerland--Social policy, Teaching--Switzerland
...the emphasis is on learning to read and write. The Italian-speaking and Rhaeto-Romanic regions are similar to the German-speaking areas in the emphasis on learning (Rhaeto-Romance is a group of three Romance dialects, including Romansch). Beginning...
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Science and the National Parks: a Transatlantic Perspective on the Interwar Years
Journal article by Patrick Kupper; Environmental History, Vol. 14, 2009
Subjects: Investigations, National Park Service-US, National parks, Science
...Totalschutz) and of nonintervention into natural processes was assigned to the future park. Suitable land was found in the Rhaeto-Romanic Lower Engadin, a remote Alpine region at the eastern border of Switzerland. In 1909 the committee leased the first...


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magazine articles on: Rhaeto Romanic  - 2 results

 
 
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A Question of My Heart - Switzerland's Enduring Romansch Community
Magazine article by Janet Forman; World and I, Vol. 15, July 2000
Subjects: Ethnic groups--History, Languages, Modern--History, Switzerland--Description and travel
...vernacular, and by the fifth century a.d. the resulting Rhaeto-Romanic (or Romansh) language could be heard from the Danube...commercial hub in the fifteenth century, when the Rhaeto-Romanic trading town of Chur was devastated by fire and rebuilt...
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Multi-Lingual Switzerland
Magazine article by Norman Berdichevsky; World and I, Vol. 23, February 2008
Subjects: Multilingualism--Military aspects, Multilingualism--Political aspects, Multilingualism--Social aspects, Swiss foreign relations, Switzerland--Social aspects
...spoken by almost half a million people are referred to as Rhaeto-Romanic. Although originally an oral dialect, it was made an...the "elevation" of one particular dialectal from of Rhaeto-Romansch to the status of an "official Swiss national...


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Forthright & Fearless
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), May 24, 2004
...Man from Moreton? Perhaps he believes all Swisscitizens should be compelled to speak Rhaeto-Romanic,or Romansch,a Latin-based language with strands of Rhaeto-Celtic,Italian and German. The Rhaetian tribe seems always to have been confined to...


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encyclopedia articles on: Rhaeto Romanic  - 10 results

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Rhaeto-Romanic
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RHAETO-ROMANIC re to-roman ik, generic name for several related dialects of the Romance...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...
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Romansh
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ROMANSH see Rhaeto-Romanic . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Ladin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LADIN see Rhaeto-Romanic . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Friulian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FRIULIAN see Rhaeto-Romanic . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Romansch
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ROMANSCH see Rhaeto-Romanic . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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