
	Where results make sense

Topic: Romansch

Related Topics

Romansh language

Rhaetian languages

Newgrounds

Gayborhood

Almea

Switzerland

Statistical assumptions

Motorcycle

Bicheno

Lil Kim

Jamie Foxx

Aurel Stein

Slovakia

San Francisco, California

Achilles (disambiguation)

In the News (Thu 10 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Times Argus: Vermont News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Scuol's children are taught in Romansch in school — or "scola" — and later learn German as a foreign language, but that may not be enough to save the local tongue, says Valentin Duri, a native Romansch speaker, as he closes up the pizzeria where he works after the lunchtime rush.
		Romansch was spoken all across the eastern Alps in the Middle Ages.
		The Swiss national government has passed laws to protect Romansch, such as requiring its use in schools and on bank notes, but the main problem is that speakers are divided geographically into isolated pockets, separated by German linguistic communities, says Steinberg, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.timesargus.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050424/NEWS/504240339/1014 (948 words)

	Romansch speakers a dying breed - The Washington Times: World Briefings - May 02, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Scuol's children are taught in Romansch at school -- or "scola" -- and later learn German as a foreign language, but that may not be enough to save the local tongue, said Valentin Duri, a native Romansch speaker, as he closed the pizzeria where he works after the lunchtime rush.
		Romansch was spoken throughout the eastern Alps in the Middle Ages.
		Gaelic is in a situation similar to Romansch's, because its speakers are divided across distant mountain valleys in the highlands of Scotland, Mr.
	washingtontimes.com /world/20050501-095924-3903r.htm (993 words)

	ABC News: Google Offers Search Engine in Romansch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Swiss government has passed laws to protect the minority Romansch language, such as requiring its use in schools and on bank notes, but speakers will now have the opportunity to "tschertgar il web" or search the Web in their native language.
		Though the interface is in Romansch, results aren't limited to the language.
		Romansch, a direct descendant of Latin and one of Switzerland's four official languages, has struggled to cope with encroachment of German.
	abcnews.go.com /Technology/wireStory?id=834033&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (194 words)

	Switzerland Swiss boys clothes -- language and ethnic diversity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Swiss population is approximately 70 prcent German-speaking, 19 percent French, 10 percent Italian, and 1 percent "Romansch" (Rhaeto-Romanisch).
		Romansch is an old latin language, related to "Ladin" which is spoken by a handful of mountain people in the South Tyrol (Alto Adige) in Italy, where German now also is an official language together with Italian, but where Ladin has not been recognized yet.
		As far as Switzerland is concerned, this country with its four languages, its main two religions, its three cultures - there is no serious internal conflict betwen the national/languge groups to be noted at least in past history.
	histclo.hispeed.com /country/swi/lan/swi-lan.html (819 words)

	TechBits: Mobile TV, disposable camcorders, UN video game, search in Romansch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The idea for the game came from WFP employee Paola Biocca, who died in a plane crash in 1999 in Kosovo.
		That's because Google Inc., the Internet's leading search engine provider, is now offering its service in Romansch, a language spoken by just 35,000 people in the mountains of southeastern Switzerland, the company said Wednesday.
		The Swiss government has passed laws to protect the minority Romansch language, such as requiring its use in schools and on bank notes, but speakers will now have the opportunity to "tschertgar il web" -- or search the Web -- in their native language.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05160/518137.stm (892 words)

	The Hindu : Enchanted by the view
		But, before we head into the old Romansch villages, we visited the cobbled town square with a statue of St. Moritz, and strolled to Chesa Veglia, the leaning tower of a small church built to commemorate the sacrifice of that Roman solider.
		Children played an enthusiastic, but disciplined, ball game in the town square, and all the signs were in Romansch which resembles Italian but is closer to ancient Latin.
		The Romansch people even have their own festivals on March 1, and July 24.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/mag/2002/12/15/stories/2002121500730800.htm (1218 words)

	Language Reference Page
		Romansch dialects are Indo-European/Italic/Rhaeto-Romance languages, related to Italian, French and Latin.
		Ladin Romansch is spoken by roughly 35,000 people in Italy.
		Sursilvan Romansch is spoken by less than 100,000 inhabitants of Switzerland.
	complingone.georgetown.edu /~langid/ref_langs.html (2141 words)

	Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com
		Underscoring the decline, four young mothers standing in the street chat in German, and it seems unlikely their little ones will grow up speaking Romansch.
		Scuol's children are taught in Romansch in school -- or "scola" -- and later learn German as a foreign language, but that might not be enough to save the local tongue, says Valentin Duri, a native Romansch speaker, as he closes up the pizzeria where he works after the lunchtime rush.
		Romansch has links to Latin as it might have been spoken by Roman officials, soldiers and merchants who came during the days of the empire.
	www.thetimesonline.com /articles/2005/04/24/opinion/forum/8aab135f79512e3a86256fe900649e17.txt (636 words)

	WAIS - World Affairs Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Languages like Romansch seemed destined to oblivion, a sad fate for the offspring of such a noble patrician.
		I visited Chur in Switzerland and met the nice people who were trying to keep Romansch alive.
		The Swiss are annoyed at the trouble and expense of having four languages, and, rather than learn them, businessmen men communicate across the language barrier in English.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Romania/romania_heirlatin.html (237 words)

	Romansch Translation Service - English to Romansch Translators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We deliver high quality, fast turnaround Romansch translations at competitive prices.
		Professional translators whose native language is Romansch perform our English to Romansch translation.
		Professional translators whose native language is English and have fluent Romansch perform our Romansch to English translation.
	www.appliedlanguage.com /languages/romansch_translation.shtml (265 words)

	The Hutchinson Dictionary of the Arts: Romansch literature@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Hutchinson Dictionary of the Arts: Romansch literature@ HighBeam Research
		Literature written in the Romansch language of E Switzerland.
		Apart from one 12th-century fragment, it dates from the time of the Reformation, in the 16th century.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28925572&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (157 words)

	Obscure Swiss Culture Gets Google Customization · MarketingVOX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Romansch language, a direct derivative of Latin, can now be used to "tschertgar" (search) the web.
		For Google the move may be less "sa divertier," (to have fun) and more "seser" (to sit) on many smaller markets to win affinities strong enough to defend share against oncoming competitors MSN and Yahoo.
		Romansch is one of five official languages in Switzerland, which includes German, French, Italian and money.
	www.marketingvox.com /archives/2005/06/09/obscure_swiss_culture_gets_google_customization (170 words)

	Google-Romansch, LEA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But in the future, those looking for websites in Switzerland may find themselves trying to decipher this Latin-linked language.
		The Swiss government has passed laws to protect the minority Romansch language, such as requiring its use in schools and on bank notes, but speakers will now have the opportunity to "tschertgar il web" - or search the web - in their native language.
		Although the interface is in Romansch, results aren't limited to the language.
	www.cp.org /english/online/full/oddities/050611/K061112AU.html (171 words)

	Italian-Swiss Collections
		The Italian section is also responsible for acquiring material published in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of Ticino and material published in Romansch (the fourth official language of Switzerland).
		The Library’s holdings in both are impressive, thanks to an acquisitions policy maintained since the nineteenth century, and probably represent the most significant such collections outside Switzerland itself, providing a rich resource for historical and linguistic research.
		There is a large collection of early Bibles and other religious works in Romansch and the Library has continued to purchase local publications, including on occasion translations of classic English literary texts for their linguistic interest.
	www.bl.uk /collections/westeuropean/italianswiss.html (381 words)

	romansch - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Romansch : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
		Romansch : Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition [home, info]
		Romansch : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=romansch (139 words)

	[No title]
		More than half of Italian speakers, in short (and they are for the most part workers coming from Italy), do not live in Italian Switzerland, but in the German or French section.
		The same, although in much lower numerical terms, can be said of the Romansch speakers.
		In other words, the logical consequence would be to speak of "Italian Switzerland," meaning above all a subalpine linguistic geography, and of "Italian-language Switzerland," referring to a sociolinguistic situation that concerns the whole national territory.
	userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /bonaffini/DP/svizzera.htm (1533 words)

	romansch - Wiktionary
		It is primarily spoken in the southeastern region of Switzerland, the upper portion of Tyrol, and northern Italy.
		Romansch - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary — the Rosetta Edition.
		This page was last modified 01:26, 30 June 2005.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Romansch (54 words)

	Romansch
		Romansch is one of the four official languages of Switzerland, even though it is spoken by less than 1% of the population.
		It is spoken mainly in the southeastern canton of Graubünden (Grison), which borders Austria and Italy.
		Rhaeto-Romance is often used as a collective term to refer to Romansch and several closely related languages, Friulian and Ladin.
	members.fortunecity.com /mikecolley/langnum/romansch.html (66 words)

	Learn Romansch - Language Resource Online
		Some of the courses use Romansch speech recognition technology to compare your pronunciation of Romansch words to pre-recorded native Romansch speakers.
		If you have limited time to learn Romansch, audio courses are a versatile method of learning Romansch while you drive or when you have the time, but not access to a computer.
		Even if you have some Romansch language skills already, having a phrasebook handy can help you with some quick Romansch translation for ordering food, arranging transportation and getting directions.
	www.languageresourceonline.com /languages/learn-romansch.htm (366 words)

	NL18_6: Community News
		Switzerland has 4 national languages: German, French, Italian, and Romansch, a unique Romance language spoken by some 40,000 people -- fewer than one percent of the seven million people of Switzerland.
		Swiss voters recently approved a constitutional amendment that aims to preserve Romansch by increasing federal spending on Romansch schools and by allowing Romansch-speakers to communicate with the government in their own language.
		The government is also attempting to create a standardized Romansch out of the 5 dialects currently in use; not all Romansch-speakers agree that this is a good idea.
	www.farsarotul.org /nl18_6.htm (846 words)

	PhysOrgForum Science, Physics and Technology Discussion Forums -> Google Offers Search Engine in Romansch
		Romansch, also known as Rhaeto-Romanic, is a Romance language of eastern Switzerland, northeastern Italy, and some of the bordering areas of Austria, a corruption of the Latin.
		Romansch, the name given the Rhaeto-Romanic dialects spoken in Grissons, Switzerland, is one of the country's four national languages.
		You can often identify a language by how it spells "...tion" endings of words.
	forum.physorg.com /index.php?showtopic=2136 (370 words)

	Travel Outward: Destinations: Switzerland, Europe
		The robust culture of this country is exemplified by the four different languages spoken by its population: German, French, Italian, and the native Romansch.
		One of the most noteable Swiss traits is their model efficiency, seen everywhere from their clean and timely rail system to their beatifully organized parks.
		Switzerland is a wonderful place to travel, and this efficiency makes traveling around the country so easy that day trips into the mountains or heading off to another city on a whim are easy and well worth the effort.
	www.traveloutward.com /destinations/europe_me/switzerland.shtml (636 words)

	Romansch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to ethnologue.com, Romansch has "78% lexical similarity with Italian and French, 76% with Catalan, 74% with Spanish, Sardinian, and Portuguese, 72% with Romanian." and all of the speakers are bilingual, mostly in German.
		I need a native speaker of Romansch to help me with the booklet and to record.
		Sex and age are not important (well, for this project anyway), but you must be able to speak loudly and clearly without impediments.
	www.single-serving.com /Romansch/index.php (189 words)

	Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 425 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We confirmed your finding that "Tg" is used in Romansch to represent the sound that English uses "ch" to represent.
		We did find an Italian name "Ceccelli" which would be pronounced similarly to "Tgetgel," so it's at least plausible that this is a medieval name.
		It's likely that some form of "Steven" is a Romansch name, since S. Stephen was a well-known figure throughout Europe.
	www.panix.com /~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/425.txt (166 words)

	Flims/Laax/Falera Mountain Resort: OnTheSnow Spotlight of Flims/Laax/Falera Switzerland
		Crap Sogn Gion is Stone Saint John, but most folks call it a mountain.
		Romansch is the incomprehensible fourth official language of Switzerland, a mixture of German and Latin tongues that sounds like someone speaking Pennsylvania Dutch with a Sicilian accent.
		You hear it in these villages that are still to be discovered by most Americans.
	www.onthesnow.com /CH-GR/632/feature.html (1009 words)

	Tour The Alps - St. Mozitz, Switzerland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Valley of the Inn River (En in Romansch) extends for 60 miles (97 kilometers) from the Maloja Plateau to Cinuoschel Cinuos-chel.
		Celerina is a classic Romansch village, noted for its charming Engadin-styled architecture.
		In seven additional minutes, the trains stop at Samedan, an original Roman settlement that has survived to present times.
	www.tourthealps.com /resorts/stmoritz.aspx (1060 words)

	Senior Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Romansch are a composite of mountain people
		Romansch, those who do, speak it with pride and honor.
		characteristic of Romansch pride is the use of sgraffito‹not completely
	www.seniorlifeusa.com /swiss.htm (725 words)

	Phrasebase - Romansch Language Facts And Information
		Summary: Friulian, Ladin, and Romansch are separate languages (R. Hall, Jr., personal communication 1978).
		An official written language is in common use now, called Grischuna.
		NOTE: We use a variety of sources for compiling these facts and information about Romansch Language.
	www.phrasebase.com /languages/index.php?cat=49 (236 words)

	Google Offers Service in Romansch Language
		That's because Google Inc., the Internet's leading search engine provider, is now offering its service in Romansch, a language spoken by just 35,000 people in the mountains of Southeast Switzerland, the company said Wednesday.
		Romansch language students were hired to do the necessary translation, said Google spokesman Stefan Keuchel.
		The initiative has been welcomed by Romansch groups, who have been seeking ways to keep their dwindling language alive.
	www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/2005/jun/1152940.htm (557 words)

	Mobile TV, Disposable camcorders, UN video game, Search in Romansch - 6/9/05
		BERN, Switzerland (AP) -- Not many people have heard of Romansch.
		Lawmakers want to crack down on 'patent trolls'
		Use of this site indicates your agreement to the Terms of Service (updated 12/19/2002).
	www.detnews.com /2005/technology/0506/09/0tech-209551.htm (968 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)