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RomanschLanguage

The RomanschLanguage is a RhaetianLanguage of Switzerland. SIL code: RHE. ISO 639-1: rm. ISO 639-2: roh. Population: 40,000 or 0.6% of the population (1990 census). Region: Borders of Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Graubunden Canton, Grisons valley of Surselva, valley of Voderrhein, Engadin and Val Mustair, southeast Switzerland. Alternate names: RHETO-ROMANCE, RHAETO-ROMANCE, ROMANSH, ROMANCHE. Dialects: LOWER ENGADINE (PUTER-LOWER ENGADINE, GRISONS), UPPER ENGADINE (VALLADER-UPPER ENGADINE), SURSILVAN (SURSELVA, SUTSILVAN-HINTERRHEIN), SURSILVAN-OBERLAND, SURMIRAN-ALBULA. Comments: Friulian, Ladin, and Romansch are separate languages (R. A. Hall, Jr., personal communication 1978). 78% lexical similarity with Italian and French, 76% with Catalan, 74% with Spanish, Sardinian, and Portuguese, 72% with Romanian. Speakers are bilingual. Standard German is the language of instruction in school. An official written language is in common use now, called Grischuna. Official language. All dialects taught in school. Newspapers. Bible 1679-1953.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)

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Instances	ContentBearingPhysical	Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
	Entity	The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
	GalloIberianLanguage	Of the 32 WesternRomanceLanguages, 30 of these are classified as a GalloIberianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	GalloRhaetianLanguage	Of the 13 GalloRomanceLanguages, eight of these are classified as a GalloRhaetianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	GalloRomanceLanguage	Of the 30 GalloIberianLanguages, 13 of these are classified as a GalloRomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	HumanLanguage	The subclass of Languages used by Humans.
	IndoEuropeanLanguage	There are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	ItalicLanguage	An ItalicLanguage is any of 48 closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in Europe.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	ItaloWesternRomanceLanguage	Of the 47 RomanceLanguages, 38 of these are classified as an ItaloWesternRomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	Language	A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
	LanguageFamily	A LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family)
	LinguisticExpression	This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
	NaturalLanguage	The subclass of HumanLanguages which are not designed and which evolve from generation to generation. This Class includes all of the national languages, e.g. English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. Note that this class includes dialects of natural languages.
	Physical	An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
	RhaetianLanguage	Of the eight GalloRhaetianLanguages, three of these are classified as a RhaetianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	RomanceLanguage	Of the 48 ItalicLanguages, 47 of these are classified as a RomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	WesternRomanceLanguage	Of the 38 ItaloWesternRomanceLanguages, 32 of these are classified as a WesternRomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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