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 | | ROMANCE LANGUAGES, (q.v.), including Romansh or Grishun, spoken in Graubünden (Grisons) Canton in southeastern Switzerland; Ladin, spoken in northern Italy, in the Alto Adige region and to the east in the Dolomite Alps; and Friulian, spoken in the Friuli region of Italy, east of the Alps. |
 | | Of about half a million Rhaeto-Romanic speakers, about 90 percent speak Friulian; about 1 percent of Swiss citizens speak Romansh, one of Switzerland’s four official languages. |
 | | Romansh, Ladin, and Friulian have thriving local literatures. |
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