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Romansh

Romance language spoken in the Swiss canton of Grisons (Graubünden)
Intangible natural_language Q13199
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Romansh is an intangible entity associated with Switzerland[1].

Key Facts

  • Country: Switzerland[3]
  • Instance of: modern language[4]
  • Subclass of: Rhaeto-Romance[5]
  • Writing system: Latin script[6]
  • Commons category: Romansh language[7]
  • Wikimedia language code: rm[8]
  • Official website: http://www.liarumantscha.ch[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Romansh language[10]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 40,039[11]
  • Native label: rumantsch[12]
  • Different from: Romanian[13], Romani[14]
  • UNESCO language status: 3 definitely endangered[15]
  • Indigenous to: Canton of the Grisons[16]
  • Studied by: Societad Retorumantscha[17]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ROH[18], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133079465[19]
  • Has tense: present tense[20], past tense[21], future tense[22]
  • Ethnologue language status: 2 Provincial[23]
  • Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[24], syllabic language[25], fusional language[26], synthetic language[27], noun-adjective[28]
  • Has grammatical gender: masculine[29], feminine[30]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: Obelepédia[31]
  • Related category: Category:Romansh pronunciation[32]

Why It Matters

Romansh has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Romansh is known by 74 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Related Entities

Ilario Valdelli Jenna Jameson Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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