One Romanian lady married to a Romansh guy,she learned his language in a couple of months .I looked on the map and I noticed a village called Craista Pashun,Creasta Pashunii in Romanian(Pasture Crest).

I live in Switzerland, and I'd like to say thank you for talking about Switzerland and its languages and for an accuarate portrayal. Languages are a big issue in Switzerland and protection of minority languages is quite important, even if often an uphill struggle. If you loom at Swiss history, in the past the mountains were often insurmountable boundaries and so there could be people living as little 20km apart having little awareness of one another's existence. Furthermore the political history of Switzerland is also complicated and each region or canton has its own history. Often as summary they separated off from some other country and maybe after a period of doing their own thing they joined the Swiss Confedertion some time in the Middle Ages or even later. Some cantons also conquered others and imposed their rule on them and they sometimes even went to war with one another (cue the reformation). This means that to this today there is a still a lot of regional thinking with many people associating with their cantons very strongly and being mistrusting of the others. Dialects are often a symbol of this, there being about 20 shades of German dialect groups alone. Many of these dialects have similarly divergent words as in the examples you use from Romantsch, and even rules of grammar vary by location. It is of note that the Romansch language is not just spoken in Switzerland but there are pockets in the adjacent bits of Northern Italy, although they do not enjoy the same recognition there and are at risk of being subsumed into mainstream Italian. I have a 150 year old Romansch prayer book that I bought for a few cents on a flea market. I don't understand all of it but the texts sound very beautiful indeed. Personally I don't find Romansch to have very much German in it, apart from obvious modern day loan words. Strangely if I like at old French there are many elements that look similar to Romansch, for example in verb conjugations. Interestingly some of these odd conjugations live on today in some regional French dialects spoken in Switzerland (for example the Jura dialect). I also find there are striking similarities to Catalan, again in terms of some vocabulary and also verb forms (and also some similarities in customs, maybe aided by both being mountain peoples). Some people also say there are common elements of Romanian, but I don't know enough about Romanian to comment on that. The closest languages to Romansch are supposedly the Ladin as spoken in pockets of the Italian Alps and also certain Italian mountain dialects that no doubt emerged from a fusion of Italian with older languages related to Romantsch and sound very similar to Romanstch,

Speaking as a “lumbard” this just sounds like music to my ears. Easy to undertand for Lombards😊

I think the other thing in favour of Rumantsch is that it is very much actually used. Go to places along the Engiadin valley like Zernez, and listen to the locals (as I have done), and you will hear it. And in Switzerland people are proud to use their languages. Unlike in Cymru, where there is a temptation to switch to English for more formal situations or if non-Welsh speakers are about, no such pressure exists in Switzerland. Going for a walk in the Engiadin, you will be greeted with "Allegra", not "Grüezi", and you won't get a filthy look back if you say "Allegra" and the person you say it to doesn't speak Rumantsch (Cymry Cymraeg will know exactly what I am getting at here). I have a book on Rumantsch; years ago I started to learn it. I should dig it out again.

Charlemagne the great is saying twice the same thing as « magne » comes from the latin Magnus that means great. The Charlemagne (or Carolingian) empire wasn’t divided by his 3 sons, but by his 3 grand sons.

Love the way you present its very unique.

Found somewhere on the net: « Giorgio Moroder’s native language is Ladin. He is from an area which is called Gherdëina in Ladin, Gröden or Grödnertal in German and Val Gardena in Italian. Moroder’s home town, Urtijëi/St. Ulrich/Ortisei is one of three municipalities in the area where the overwhelming majority (according to the 2011 census, between 84 and 92 %, depending on the municipality) of the population speak Ladin. Primary school is taught in Ladin, and there is also a Ladin middle school. Most of the Ladin-speaking inhabitants are trilingual (Ladin, German, Italian). Moroder is a very common name there, by the way. Since 1960, Urtijëi/St. Ulrich/Ortisei has had four mayors with that surname. »

Interestingly the rumantch speakers survived up in the mountains, but later german speaking Walser moved from the west into the highest parts of the montains. Sandwiching Romantsch.

Also spoken in Cortins d'Ampezzo and the nearby Alps

I believe there is hope. Thank you very much once again. Diolch duit.

Greetings. How do you do. Thank you very much for sharing out on this part of history. Highly appreciated. Diolch.

Way to go!

One reason for the refusal of a standard rumantsch language by its people is probably that the standard is not needed as a lingua franca between region, as you are far likelier to have to communicate with a german-speaker, than with a speaker of another idiom.

The Vlachs of Switzerland origin Thracian Dacian its very similar to the Romanian and the other Vlach spekers from South Balkans The Vlach peoples from the south Balkans have generally been identified as the indigenous populations with Thracian & Illyrian (Thraco-Illyrian) and Greco-Roman (Hellenic) and true Roman empire origins. The Orthodox population in Croatia and Bosnia was though historically called Vlachs. Vlach is a term that does not designate a specific ethnicity. It was a general term used in medieval times for any people that were indigenous communities from times of the Roman Empire.

I think part of the survival of Cymraeg/Welsh was the decision to introduce a standardised Welsh in schools that blended the main dialects. Older people didn't like "north Walian/south Walian" words replacing local words (my Mam always complained when a new presenter used a southern Welsh instead of the "proper" northern word) used in "modern" Welsh. Maybe Swiss tv could introduce a Romansh version of "Pobol y Cwm" (set in mid-Wales) in central Switzerland? Great video, glad you're back on you feet!

I had been told in the past that Romansh was a language left over from the occupation of the Romans. So I presumed mostly Latin based. When I spoke to some Swiss people recently, whose first language was French, they said it was really a mixture of German, French and Italian. Anyway I hope this unique language will thrive.

People don't like writing in Rumantsch Grischun because they fear it will replace their existing native "languages". As someone from the German speaking part of Switzerland, this sounds a bit ridiculous to me, as we don't usually write our dialects either. The region where Surmiran is spoken switched from Rumantsch Grischun back to Surmiran for their school textbooks a few years ago. The only region using Rumantsch Grischun in writing now is the Val Müstair, mainly because their native dialect called Jauer isn't one of the five traditionally written idioms, so they write in the official standard rather than in Vallader, which isn't native to them either. I expect this language to survive for some time. Public school in predominantly Rumantsch speaking areas still starts out in Rumantsch for small children, only introducing German as a forgein language in third grade. At some point the language of education switches to German, but that's at a rather late state. Children still speak it among each other too. For the future, I predict that Sutsilvan and Surmiran will mostly fade away in the upcoming decades, potentially going extinct within my lifetime. Puter is stronger and will probably coexist with German for some time to come. Sursilvan and Vallader (and also the not written Jauer) on the other hand are still majority languages in areas big enough to be taken seriously and to be able to survive at least another century.

Look, sir, i am fond of the way you search things and facts of Romanian history, Romanian true story. What is hapoening there? You do lobby in benefit of an obscure country, congratulations, you are on an winning path, you will see tgat sooner or latter... I am fond of your films, thank you 🙂

In St Moritz & Davos. Rhætia 9:24 song of the war of C d M. Well, Euskal Batua and Standard Croatian arose from several regional dialects. TV and KZfaq make it easier to get used to

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Chan - Cane_Caine(Romanian), Casa - Casa(Romanian)

I think you should make a few videos in Welsh too

Very interesting subject, calling for more. Some vocabulary comparisons with related languages, maybe? Celtic, or pre-Celtic surviving words? Of course, you're so busy, but... 😉 Thanks Ben 👍

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I understand almost all from Catalan.

Confused me in the subject. I thought Românch was the gypsy dialect and people in România.

Isn't it a bit redundant to call "Charlemagne the Great" since Charlemagne means Charles the Great?

what do know of yr henn ogledd ?

Diddorol ag ardderchog……

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This is how the transition was made from Romanian to Germanic languages? 🤯 Mind boggling. Btw. All romanic languages developed individually from each other out ofba protoromanian language Pre-Latin. It is not true that languages got Latinized. The best example is LaDin and Romanian having almost exactly the same numbers while in Latin is totally different, and while LaDin Dolomites and Romanians never ever met each other. Even more so is Romanian and Aromanian, Istroromanian and other types of Romanian languages from so called Vlachs that never met each other and developed independently of each other. While the romanic words they speak are exactly as in Romanian and not in Latin. What a huge lie they taught us that we were Latinized by the Romans. Romans occupied only 1/4 of Dacia for only 140 years, while the rest of Dacia was free. And yet the whole Dacian territory south from Danube to Nistru, speak Romanian. Romania was under Ottoman and Austria-Hungarian occupation for 500 respectively 300 years and yet no Romanians spoke any of these languages nor do they speak them today. All romance languages developed from a romanic language. Even Greek developed from Romaniek. But it was not Latin. Maybe even Rome came into existence due to the tribe with a name Roma. Just like the Gypsies. The whole Europe is colonized by the Dacians and Sarmatians that were the Lost tribes of Dan (Dacians) and the Samaritans. The tribe of Dan must have speak Romanian. As the first Jews in Greece call themselves also Romanians. It is complicated, but we all in Europe are a Semitic population. Dacians and the Sarmatians colonized Italy, Sardinia, Corsica, Scandinavia, Danmark, Holland, Ireland and Scotland, as well as Ukraine, Yugo-Slavia, Russia and Greece. Etruscans were Israel lost tribes that fled from Egypt. The tribe of Dan co-existed with Phoenicians. The Jews colonized Iberic Peninsula, France and Wallonia and England. It is a huge mess up. See The Serpent's Trail of the lost tribes of Israel. The lost tribe of Dan. See also The Hebrew Origin of Serbs.