I like languages, have you noticed?
I like all languages - I like the weird ones where you understand nothing and the familiar ones where you can find all the parallels. I have a weak spot for the strange, small, out of the way ones.
So I really like Romansh.
Romansch (a Romance language, as the name suggests, just like French or Spanish) is the tiniest minority language spoken in Switzerland, a country of minorities and anomolies. There are only about 60,000 speakers, but they divide themselves up between five different dialects!
Switzerland is so wonderfully silly.
A friend just forwarded me this nice little New York Times article about Romansh speakers.
Oh, I do love Romansh.
I LOVE the Romansh version of here comes the sun that you put on the sunshine mix. I play is all the time in my car, trying to get to the point where I can sing along!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad! I love that song - well, song version - too.
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