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Romansh is a Gallo-Rhaetian member of the Italic subgroup of the Indo-European language family spoken by 40,000 people along the borders of Switzerland, Austria and Italy. Rumantsch Grischun is the common written language of the Romansh people: It is based to a large extent on the three written idioms used in the Romansh-speaking Grisons, Sursilvan (Surselva), Vallader (Lower Engadine) and Surmiran (Surmeir/Albula Valley). In many cases, however, it also considers the two minor idioms Sutsilvan (Val Schons) and Put?r (Upper Engadine), as well as the various regional and local variants. [Adapted from: Lia Rumantsch]

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• - This Institute, based in Chur (Swiss canton of Graubünden/Grisons), publishes the standard dictionary of the Romansh language.
  
• - Information about the Romansh language, including an introductory teaching grammar (still in development). The site is intended as a central website for all English-language information concerning the language.
  
• - By Joseph Planta. A description of the language and its dialects, in a 1775 letter. In plain text (two versions) or as a zip file, from Project Gutenberg.
  
  

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