Rhaetian Romance

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Rhaetian Romance is a group of closely related Romance languages spoken primarily in parts of Switzerland and northern Italy, including Romansh, Ladin, and Friulian.

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Label Occurrences
Rhaetian Romance canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf group of Romance languages
language group
debatedClassification whether it forms a single branch of Romance
geographicDistribution central Alps
eastern Alps NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Rhaeto-Romance NERFINISHED
Rhaeto-Romance languages
hasCharacteristic influence from Germanic languages in some areas
influence from neighboring Italo-Romance dialects
mutual lexical similarity among member languages
preservation of archaic Romance features
significant dialectal variation
use of Latin-based vocabulary
hasFeature grammatical gender
prepositional case marking
use of definite and indefinite articles
verb conjugation by person and number
hasMember Friulian language NERFINISHED
Ladin language NERFINISHED
Romansh language NERFINISHED
hasPart Friulian NERFINISHED
Ladin NERFINISHED
Romansh NERFINISHED
historicalRegion Raetia NERFINISHED
isSubjectOf Rhaeto-Romance languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European

Romance
relatedTo Gallo-Romance languages NERFINISHED
Italo-Dalmatian languages NERFINISHED
spokenIn Alps NERFINISHED
Dolomites NERFINISHED
Friuli Venezia Giulia NERFINISHED
Italy NERFINISHED
South Tyrol NERFINISHED
Switzerland NERFINISHED
Trentino NERFINISHED
eastern Switzerland NERFINISHED
northern Italy
status endangered in several areas
minority language group
subclassOf Indo-European languages NERFINISHED
Romance languages NERFINISHED
typicalWordOrder SVO
usedFor local literature
regional communication
traditional oral culture
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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