Romansh, spoken by two percent of the population in southeast Switzerland, is an ancient Rheato-Romanic language derived from Latin, remnants of ancient Celtic languages and perhaps Etruscan.

Romansh came to be a written language, and therefore it is recognized as a language, even though it is very close to the Lombardic alpine dialects.

Romansh ( also spelled Romansch, Rumants ( c ) h, or Romanche ; Romansh: /// rumàntsch ; German: Rätoromanisch ; Italian: Romancio ) is a Rhaeto-Romance language descended from the Vulgar Latin spoken by the Roman era occupiers of the region.

Romansh is one of the four national languages of Switzerland, along with German, French and Italian.

Spoken by around 0. 9 % of Switzerland's 7. 7 million inhabitants, Romansh is Switzerland's least-used national language in terms of number of speakers and the tenth most spoken language in Switzerland overall.

Romansh is a Romance language descending from Vulgar Latin, the spoken language of the Roman Empire.

Another distinguishing feature is the centuries-long language contact with German, which is most noticeable in the vocabulary and to a lesser extent the syntax of Romansh.

The main feature placing Romansh within the Gallo-Romance languages is the fronting of Latin // to

The city is called Zurich in French, Zurigo in Italian, and Turitg in Romansh.

It is closely related to the Swiss Romansh and Friulian.

Graubünden is also home to three of Switzerland's ethnic groups and the subsequent languages of Swiss German, Italian and Romansh are all native to the state.

It is also the only canton where the Romansh language is still spoken.

There is a linguistic element to the religions, for the canton's German-speakers have been majority Protestant, whereas the Italian and Romansh speakers ( and their descendants who may no longer speak those languages ) are largely Roman Catholic.

Graubünden is the only canton of Switzerland with three official languages: German in the northwest ( 68 %), Romansh in the Engadin and around Disentis / Mustér ( 15 %), and Italian in the Italian Graubünden ( 10 %) with the remaining 7 % speaking another language.

Cunter ( Romansh, in German: Conters im Oberhalbstein ) is a municipality in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

The source is located in the Swiss Alps, west of St. Moritz in the Engadin region, which is named after the river ( Romansh Engiadina: " garden of the Inn ").

In the fourth national language of Switzerland, Romansh, it is abbreviated as ASB ( Associaziun Svizra da Ballape ).

The Engadin or Engadine ( German: Engadin, Italian: Engadina, Romansh: Engiadina ; tr: garden of the Inn ) is a long valley in the Swiss Alps located in the canton of Graubünden in southeast Switzerland.

In Romansh, which is the indigenous language of the region, the " Engadin " literally translates as the Inn Garden ; the garden of the Inn River ( Romansh: En ), however, historically, politically, and geographically, the Engadin refers to the entire region, including the Inn River Valley, its tributaries, and the surrounding mountains.

* Viafiers federalas svizras, the Romansh term for Swiss Federal Railways, the Swiss national railway.

The western continuum of Romance languages, which comprises, from West to East: In Portugal, Portuguese ; In Spain, Galician, Leonese or Asturian, Castilian or Spanish, Aragonese and Catalan or Valencian ; In France, Occitan, Franco-Provençal and standard French ; in Italy, Italian and in Switzerland, Romansh as well as other languages with fewer speakers, is sometimes presented as another example, although the major languages in this group have had separate standards for longer than the languages in the continental West Germanic group, and are not commonly classified as dialects of a common language.

* lebes " boiler " > chaldāria (= caldāria ), based on Classical caldārius " related to bathing or hot water " ( French chaudière, Romansh chaldera, Italian caldaia, Occitan caudera, Catalan / Spanish caldera, Portuguese caldeira, Romanian căldare )

Like all dialects of Western Lombard, Milanese is a Western Romance language, related to French, Romansh, and to other Gallo-Italian languages.

They also act as a linguistic refugium, preserving archaic dialects such as Romansh, Walser German or Romance Lombardic.

The team moved the story to Switzerland and substituted standard German, Swiss German, Romansh and various Swiss dialects for the original's languages and dialects.

The Romance languages — Galician / Portuguese, Spanish, Sicilian, Catalan, Occitan / Provençal, French, Sardinian, Romanian, Romansh, Friulan, other Italian, French, and Ibero-Romance dialects, and others — form another well-known continuum, with varying degrees of mutual intelligibility.

In the 2000 Swiss census, 35, 095 people ( of which 27, 038 in the canton of Grisons ) indicated Romansh as the language of " best command ", and 61, 815 also as a " regularly spoken " language.

Swiss French is not to be confused with Franco-Provençal / Arpitan ( also spoken in Romandie ) or Romansh ( spoken in the Grisons ), two other individual Romance languages.

In the movie the location is implied as being near St Moritz where Romansh is still spoken, and " Piz " would be appropriate as the dialect name for peak.

However the restaurant is actually located in the Bernese Oberland, where Romansh is not spoken and " piz " is not used.

The Romansh language, which is still spoken in some parts of the Swiss Canton Graubünden, has survived in many of the regional field names.

Author and anthropologist Pascal Hofmeier notes that in choosing to rap in Romansh, a language spoken by only a few thousand people, yet instantly identifiable as Swiss, Liricas Analas takes the concept of Lokalpatriotismus ( local pride ), which is so prevalent in the Swiss hip-hop scene, to an extreme level.

Compare: English Welsh, Flemish Dutch waalsch " Walloons ", German welsch " French ", Switzerland German Churwelsch " Churer Romance " ( an old name for Romansh, which used to be spoken in Chur ), Old Norse Valir " Roman ; French ".

Graubünden is an area in which German, Romansh, Lombard and Italian are all spoken, and hence during 16th century rule by Graubünden, the region became known variously as Veltlin, Westtirol ( West Tyrol ), and the Welsche Vogteien (" Foreign Bailiwicks ").

* Piz is also part of the name of many mountains in places where Romansh is spoken, as it means " peak " in that language.

Romansh is spoken by some 1 % of Switzerland's 7. 4 million inhabitants.

Its population includes a two-thirds majority of Alemannic German speakers and a one-quarter Latin minority ( French, Italian and Romansh ), see linguistic geography of Switzerland.

Swiss Federal Railways, usually abbreviated in English using the German SBB (, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen ;, Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses ;, Ferrovie federali svizzere ; Romansh: Viafiers federalas svizras ; VFS ( Romansh ) is not in official use ) is the national railway company of Switzerland headquartered in Bern.

Owing to Switzerland having four official languages, the lyrics of the original German song were translated into the other three national languages: French, Italian and Romansh.

The Sri Lankan national anthem is one of a number that are sung in more than one language: Canada ( English, French & Inuktitut ), Belgium ( French, Dutch & German ), Switzerland ( German, French, Italian & Romansh ), South Africa ( Xhosa, Zulu, Sesotho, Afrikaans & English ), Suriname ( Dutch and Sranan Tongo ), and New Zealand ( English & Māori ).

St. Moritz ( German: Sankt Moritz ; Italian: San Maurizio ; Romansh: ) is a resort town in the Engadine valley in Switzerland.

* Romansh language in the ISO 639-1 set of language codes ( it is one of the four national languages of Switzerland )

; German: Franken, French and Romansh: franc, Italian: franco ; code: CHF ) is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein ; it is also legal tender in the Italian exclave Campione d ' Italia.

Switzerland has long had a distinct cultural identity, despite its diversity of German, French, Italian, Romansh and other ethnicities.

* Romansh: Switzerland.

Romansh has status in Switzerland as a national language with three other national languages ; however, its usage is rather limited to the canton of Graubünden ( Romansh: Grischun ).

* Romansh language: 60, 000 speakers, official status in Switzerland ( Graubünden ).

Switzerland has four official languages, French, German, Italian, and Romansh.

Out of their 51 appearances in the Contest, Switzerland has sent 52 songs, 24 of which were in French, 12 in German, nine in Italian, six in English, and one in Romansh.