this is a neolatin language, but i cant understand nothing. I am romanian and I understand 30-40% of a phrase in french/italian/spanish, portugese maybe less...
sounds like german try very hard to speak italian :)
Romansch standard should be the main and supreme swiss national language. It is the only proper language of Switzerland. For Switzerland it desirable that all swiss speak their only own language, as a common language to communicate with each other among them, so it can differentiate itself finally and definitively of France, Germany (which includes Austria) and Italy, establishing its distinct identity.
@Demoesceptico Also should not mean that they stop knowing French, German, Italian and even English which is the current lingua franca. The Swiss Language, or romansh standard, would be the ultimate, metapolitical and eternal national unification tool, and final shaping of identity, of Switzerland.
I speak german, italian and english... and I can tell you guys, this language sounds to me like if someone just took my brain, slammed it against a wall, and then put it back in my head with all languages mixed...
somehow you got a totally latin language with a totally germany accent with a little bit of a northern italian accent and a little portoguese, but an overwhelming german accent for the language closest to Latin!
Sum dal Lac magior, el me dialet l'è mia propri ugual al rumantsch però a ghè tanta sumiglianza in di parol. Somia se vialtar capirè cusa a disi, in ogni cas eviva i nöst dialet e speruma che sparisan mia cumè purtröp tanti àltar.
Cumpliment a tüc i svizzar-rumantsch e a la so lingua.
@MikBarn99 si, hai ragione. i "dialetti" italiani non sono proprio "dialetti," ma lingue!! e` vero; hai ragione. la conservazione delle lingue italiane mi fa tanto felice perche' ci sono troppe lingue che non ora esistono, grazie ai governi di molti paesi come la francia che non cagano le lingue delle minoranze................. mi scusa! sto imparando ancora l'italiano. :3 non lo parlo molto bene.
@phr4nk3rd00d13 esattamente, tra l'altro certi nostri patois(sia del Nord che del Sud ) sono veramente molto complessi e differenti rispetto all'Italiano standard (per es. noi diciamo oeuf o coeur come in fr.) e quindi penso che tutti questi linguaggi abbiano tesori linguistici da tutelare, ad es. il nostro lombardo slita è assolutamente identico all'antico longobardo slita percìò è come un reperto archeologico medievale:) e va tutelato come un "rudere" archeologico qualsiasi in pietra:)
Pity that this language is disappearing. How come they are ceasing to speak this beautiful language in favour of the horrible sounding German. I thought Switzerland had 4 official languages. Why are they forced to learn German? French is far more important than German, so they should be learning French. And for communication' s sake with other Swiss English is far more practical than German
You are the one who must be kidding. French spoken in France, Belgium, Switzerland , French Guyana, lin many African countries. It is a UN work language. Willing it or not , it is way more important than German, Italian let alone Polish
OH STFU. You've no idea what you're talking about. nobody is FORCED to learn german. they simply speak both languages because they are such a small minority. rumantsch gets lots and lots of support and promotion. they are not learning french because they live right at the other end of the country from the french speaking swiss. And the day we swiss will speak in english to each other will be the end of our nation. we learn each others languages, and english second.
The one who need the shut the fuck mouth here are You. Germanisation of the Romantsch community is a fact. German is the most direct threat to Romansh . This is a fact!
I doubt that Swiss who speak German are learning Romansh. You are the one who have know idea what you're talking about ! Get your facts straight ! It is a big lie saying that you learn each other' s languages! Come up with another one. I did not buy this one !
You are badmouthing my mothertongue here and seem to have no idea about Switzerland. If you are Swiss, say so then we are two Swiss people who disagree about our own language policy. But i guess if you were you'd have a different opinion.
Schoolkids in rumantsch speaking areas are taught rumantsch no matter what thei're parents speak. All official documents in the Canton of Grisons exist in rumantsch as far as i know. Most Swiss scool kids in the german speaking area learn french as a first language. Since we are a federalist country, the cantons are free to decide about these things and unfortunately some eastern cantons decided to teach kids english first. french speakers learn german first.
Italian speakers learn french and often speak french AND german fluently. There are mass media available in rumantsch even if only a little on the national level.
rumantsch is disappearing because it is the language of a remote mountain region. Modern phenomena like mass media, migration within the country, and industrialization reached it very late and incompletely. Therefore this modernisation process gave German a priority. People moving away from their mountain homeland and other people moving into it from outside is the threat to rumantsch.
@fiedelmina, the same happens here in West - Friesland (the Netherlands). But we can help to survive or language by learning or children the language we where born with!
@ReadeRomke I explained that children in the rumantsch speaking part of the country are taught in this language in their schools. Of course they learn it at home in the first place!! Rumantsch speakers outside Grisons are often very strictly teaching it to their children. I know of a rumantsch speaking family where both father and son married german speaking wives- both women were asked to learn the language and did so.
she is speaking in rumanstch, "romanche" in Spanish, the most minority language in Swizerland, but a romanic language. It seems like german and italian, but it's wonderful. people who is interviewed speaks in italian.
Verdade: sem dúvida, um unicornio... Agora, como é que ainda pode haver um nunicórnio no mundo? Mormente na Suissa? É uma coisa de sonho, mesmo... Um unicórnio... Mas o melhor foi escutar a lingua que esta gente fala. Será possível que ententem o que estou escrevendo? Abraços deste brasileiro. Eu quase entendi tudo que disseram...
@VeritasIncrebresco More like German, I speak Italian but I understand very little... But the written one is easy to understand for me, and for those who speak spanish too I guess...
It's nice to hear Romansch - I first heard it on a visit to St Moritz in 1990. It'd be sad if it died out, but if native speakers don't care, nobody else will.
I'm not sure what sounds German, maybe the uvular R, and some endings pronounced weak, but even the woman at the beginnign has an intonation that seems more latin to me than German. I speak Spanish.
Great language..it's very similar to italian but with a german pronunciation. Only a question: in the future with the deep progressive "germanization" that is changing the way of speaking of Retoromanisch lands of Graubunden (like Albula, Engiadina, Surselva), is "Lia rumantscha" going to die? 20 years ago about 70000 people spoke rumantsch, now only 30000... :(
germaporturomanian.
kuj4z 2 months ago
this is a neolatin language, but i cant understand nothing. I am romanian and I understand 30-40% of a phrase in french/italian/spanish, portugese maybe less...
sounds like german try very hard to speak italian :)
a1b9c8d7 2 months ago
Che bella lingua, ha la melodia dell' Italiano del nord, la sensualitá del Portoghese... una lingua da conservare a tutti i costi
EXSECVTOR 8 months ago 5
Bisogna conservare questa lingua, il Reto-Romanico deve ripendersi il terreno perduto nei confronti del tedesco, una lingua straniera...
EXSECVTOR 8 months ago
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Romansch standard should be the main and supreme swiss national language. It is the only proper language of Switzerland. For Switzerland it desirable that all swiss speak their only own language, as a common language to communicate with each other among them, so it can differentiate itself finally and definitively of France, Germany (which includes Austria) and Italy, establishing its distinct identity.
Demoesceptico 10 months ago
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@Demoesceptico Also should not mean that they stop knowing French, German, Italian and even English which is the current lingua franca. The Swiss Language, or romansh standard, would be the ultimate, metapolitical and eternal national unification tool, and final shaping of identity, of Switzerland.
Demoesceptico 10 months ago
woah there are unicorns in switzerland?
busysignal2006 10 months ago 5
I speak german, italian and english... and I can tell you guys, this language sounds to me like if someone just took my brain, slammed it against a wall, and then put it back in my head with all languages mixed...
raphu604 10 months ago
somehow you got a totally latin language with a totally germany accent with a little bit of a northern italian accent and a little portoguese, but an overwhelming german accent for the language closest to Latin!
BijiApoCheHugoChavez 1 year ago 2
Some sounds in here I've never heard before and I'm a linguist lol!
Olekander 1 year ago
A mixture spanish, italian, portuguese and romanian
kuj4z 1 year ago
Shit, I understand most of what they're saying. It's great to find out you know another foreign language, I guess I'll put that in my cv.
builder2000 1 year ago
are you guys really worried about the language? Man, they found a UNICORN thats weird. but yea the language is cool (:
DPBurn121 1 year ago 2
The r-sound is weird. Wow. 0_o
Pholus 1 year ago
adesso ci credo un po di piu... XD
unclejohnthezef 1 year ago
Sum dal Lac magior, el me dialet l'è mia propri ugual al rumantsch però a ghè tanta sumiglianza in di parol. Somia se vialtar capirè cusa a disi, in ogni cas eviva i nöst dialet e speruma che sparisan mia cumè purtröp tanti àltar.
Cumpliment a tüc i svizzar-rumantsch e a la so lingua.
Un caro saluto dal Lago Maggiore italiano.
atlantic74 1 year ago
@atlantic74 Anche io vivo sul lago maggiore, ma dalla parte svizzera, il nostro dialetto è un po' diverso a quanto vedo...
lamortedietrolangolo 1 year ago
eu sun agreablamaing surpraisa..!!
xMahliqax 1 year ago
wow, fantastic, we too in Lombard dialect (or better Lombard LANGUAGE) we say Ünicorn , LÜuv , Urs , Regiùn ecc. , really nice video
MikBarn99 2 years ago 7
@MikBarn99 si, hai ragione. i "dialetti" italiani non sono proprio "dialetti," ma lingue!! e` vero; hai ragione. la conservazione delle lingue italiane mi fa tanto felice perche' ci sono troppe lingue che non ora esistono, grazie ai governi di molti paesi come la francia che non cagano le lingue delle minoranze................. mi scusa! sto imparando ancora l'italiano. :3 non lo parlo molto bene.
phr4nk3rd00d13 3 months ago
@phr4nk3rd00d13 esattamente, tra l'altro certi nostri patois(sia del Nord che del Sud ) sono veramente molto complessi e differenti rispetto all'Italiano standard (per es. noi diciamo oeuf o coeur come in fr.) e quindi penso che tutti questi linguaggi abbiano tesori linguistici da tutelare, ad es. il nostro lombardo slita è assolutamente identico all'antico longobardo slita percìò è come un reperto archeologico medievale:) e va tutelato come un "rudere" archeologico qualsiasi in pietra:)
MikBarn99 3 months ago
je nique la suisse
iSViCRe100 2 years ago
Pity that this language is disappearing. How come they are ceasing to speak this beautiful language in favour of the horrible sounding German. I thought Switzerland had 4 official languages. Why are they forced to learn German? French is far more important than German, so they should be learning French. And for communication' s sake with other Swiss English is far more practical than German
gustavinho71 2 years ago 2
Are you joking? French is less than important than even Polish.
Bohemund 2 years ago
You are the one who must be kidding. French spoken in France, Belgium, Switzerland , French Guyana, lin many African countries. It is a UN work language. Willing it or not , it is way more important than German, Italian let alone Polish
gustavinho71 2 years ago
Come on, French is a language whose importance has long been gone. Just freaking speak English.
International institutions should stop artificially supporting this long dead language.
Bohemund 2 years ago
@Bohemund dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
jojo90ist 1 year ago
OH STFU. You've no idea what you're talking about. nobody is FORCED to learn german. they simply speak both languages because they are such a small minority. rumantsch gets lots and lots of support and promotion. they are not learning french because they live right at the other end of the country from the french speaking swiss. And the day we swiss will speak in english to each other will be the end of our nation. we learn each others languages, and english second.
fiedelmina 2 years ago 2
The one who need the shut the fuck mouth here are You. Germanisation of the Romantsch community is a fact. German is the most direct threat to Romansh . This is a fact!
gustavinho71 2 years ago
I doubt that Swiss who speak German are learning Romansh. You are the one who have know idea what you're talking about ! Get your facts straight ! It is a big lie saying that you learn each other' s languages! Come up with another one. I did not buy this one !
gustavinho71 2 years ago
You are badmouthing my mothertongue here and seem to have no idea about Switzerland. If you are Swiss, say so then we are two Swiss people who disagree about our own language policy. But i guess if you were you'd have a different opinion.
fiedelmina 2 years ago
Schoolkids in rumantsch speaking areas are taught rumantsch no matter what thei're parents speak. All official documents in the Canton of Grisons exist in rumantsch as far as i know. Most Swiss scool kids in the german speaking area learn french as a first language. Since we are a federalist country, the cantons are free to decide about these things and unfortunately some eastern cantons decided to teach kids english first. french speakers learn german first.
fiedelmina 2 years ago 2
Italian speakers learn french and often speak french AND german fluently. There are mass media available in rumantsch even if only a little on the national level.
fiedelmina 2 years ago 2
rumantsch is disappearing because it is the language of a remote mountain region. Modern phenomena like mass media, migration within the country, and industrialization reached it very late and incompletely. Therefore this modernisation process gave German a priority. People moving away from their mountain homeland and other people moving into it from outside is the threat to rumantsch.
fiedelmina 2 years ago
Still you forgot to say that Germanisation is the main cause ot Romansh language' s decline.
gustavinho71 2 years ago
@fiedelmina, the same happens here in West - Friesland (the Netherlands). But we can help to survive or language by learning or children the language we where born with!
ReadeRomke 1 year ago
@ReadeRomke I explained that children in the rumantsch speaking part of the country are taught in this language in their schools. Of course they learn it at home in the first place!! Rumantsch speakers outside Grisons are often very strictly teaching it to their children. I know of a rumantsch speaking family where both father and son married german speaking wives- both women were asked to learn the language and did so.
fiedelmina 1 year ago
I wonder what you call "Germanisation" now.
fiedelmina 2 years ago
MEU DEUS!!
será mesmo?!
hmmmm! pena que não posso compreender tudo o que dizem ¬¬ será que já foi provada como fraude ou será que é mesmo verdade?
ah! e robertujo, é SUÍÇA e não SUISSA
uno allegra de Brasil!
zapsisi 2 years ago
she is speaking in rumanstch, "romanche" in Spanish, the most minority language in Swizerland, but a romanic language. It seems like german and italian, but it's wonderful. people who is interviewed speaks in italian.
tonespagnol 2 years ago 2
interesting how they dont subtitle the people speaking italian...
ROLLitOVERmySOUL87 2 years ago
Verdade: sem dúvida, um unicornio... Agora, como é que ainda pode haver um nunicórnio no mundo? Mormente na Suissa? É uma coisa de sonho, mesmo... Um unicórnio... Mas o melhor foi escutar a lingua que esta gente fala. Será possível que ententem o que estou escrevendo? Abraços deste brasileiro. Eu quase entendi tudo que disseram...
robertujo 2 years ago
A mí tambiién me sorprendió lo inteligible que resulta el Romanche, para mi que hablo español.
DanVilAl 2 years ago
Hah, I finally hear Romansh for the first time in my life! This is why I love youtube lol. Sounds like Italian and German.
VeritasIncrebresco 2 years ago 29
@VeritasIncrebresco More like German, I speak Italian but I understand very little... But the written one is easy to understand for me, and for those who speak spanish too I guess...
Did you know? This language is dying...
lamortedietrolangolo 1 year ago
@lamortedietrolangolo In the past century. Recently it's been recovering (last decade) , or so I've read.
FireRupee 1 year ago
@FireRupee I hope so, this language must survive
lamortedietrolangolo 1 year ago 2
@VeritasIncrebresco
You don't realise how close is to romanian language. You relise it when they talk slower. Extradinar, unicorn, urs, capre, :))
UAU1983 1 year ago
@VeritasIncrebresco: its more like italian en latin
PibedeOro28 1 year ago
@VeritasIncrebresco
it's my first time, too. what a beautiful latin language.
kennyshen1228 6 months ago
is very latin leanguage mixed with italian an a bit mix with german words, I knew they were speaking about unicorn :D
Missiologo 3 years ago 2
this language is very close to romanian and italian
indeed
Pletet 3 years ago 2
do this language has a uvular r? if so, god it's hard! lol but nice =P
Ben
qeib87 3 years ago
Italian plus German?
Thanks for the video
lawnelson 3 years ago
no it's a form of vulgarly latin with a little german influence
Vindelicorum 3 years ago
a pesar de ser una idioma romance suena mas bien a aleman
owidiu28boo 3 years ago
am par ad sentir scorar frares com a frara aahaha
alleboypd 3 years ago
It's nice to hear Romansch - I first heard it on a visit to St Moritz in 1990. It'd be sad if it died out, but if native speakers don't care, nobody else will.
kmfw72 3 years ago
si limba romana e tot o limba neolatina
cyrush5n1 3 years ago 2
asta e o limba care seamana foarte mult cu limba romana
cyrush5n1 3 years ago
chiar, si mie im pare asa
Pletet 3 years ago
si mie...
danielmarkovits 2 years ago
my dad speaks ths language :D
amosdossi 4 years ago
The German pronunciation I heard,it's only at the speakers on TV.When they interviewed normal people their speech sounds very Latin to me!
thecathar 4 years ago
the people interviewed speak ITALIAN my baby, you got a confusion ...
rudolf69mike 3 years ago
indeed my bad!
thecathar 3 years ago
I'm not sure what sounds German, maybe the uvular R, and some endings pronounced weak, but even the woman at the beginnign has an intonation that seems more latin to me than German. I speak Spanish.
DanVilAl 2 years ago
Great language..it's very similar to italian but with a german pronunciation. Only a question: in the future with the deep progressive "germanization" that is changing the way of speaking of Retoromanisch lands of Graubunden (like Albula, Engiadina, Surselva), is "Lia rumantscha" going to die? 20 years ago about 70000 people spoke rumantsch, now only 30000... :(
Markuus1988 4 years ago
@Markuus1988 dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
jojo90ist 1 year ago
Allegra!
texdemo 4 years ago
achh verdammt
i liiab die sprach =)
Fruchti91 4 years ago
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ma che cazzo di lingua :D
sabotage81 4 years ago
how do you say "cool"in rutmansch?
wie kann mann sagt "geil"in rutmansch?
menino91 4 years ago
@menino91 hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
jojo90ist 1 year ago