{"id":1057,"date":"2009-05-27T16:54:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2009-05-27T16:54:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T15:54:54","slug":"romansh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"Romansh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I came across an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatica.com\/ch\/life-in-switzerland\/lifestyle\/Keeping-the-Romansh-language-alive_13499.html\">article<\/a> on efforts to keep the Romansh language alive. Romansh or Romansch, which you can hear in last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=1051\">language quiz<\/a>, is a Romance language spoken mainly in the Swiss Canton of Graubuenden (Grischun\/Grigione\/Grissons) by about 60,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>There appears to be mixed views on the language &#8211; some people are very enthusiastic about the language and do everything they can to encourage its use, others see the language as a handicap. <\/p>\n<p>One significant problem is that Romansh speakers can&#8217;t agree which of the five varieties of Romansh should be taught in schools. <em>Lia Rumantscha<\/em>, the organisation that promotes the language, would like to see <em>Rumantsch Grischun<\/em>, a standard written form of the language, used in all schools by next year. Other people would prefer to continue using their local varieties of Romansh in schools.<\/p>\n<p>According to a book I was reading yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1589011929\/omniglot-20\"><em>Sustaining linguistic diversity: endangered and minority languages and language varieties<\/em><\/a>, there have been similar problems in Ireland with the government wanting a standard form of Irish taught in schools, while people in Irish-speaking areas (<em>gealtachta\u00ed<\/em>) would prefer to use their local varieties of the language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I came across an interesting article on efforts to keep the Romansh language alive. Romansh or Romansch, which you can hear in last week&#8217;s language quiz, is a Romance language spoken mainly in the Swiss Canton of Graubuenden (Grischun\/Grigione\/Grissons) by about 60,000 people. There appears to be mixed views on the language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,10,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endangered-languages","category-language","category-language-revival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}