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Re: CHAT: weird names,was Re: conlanging,the ulti

From:grandsir <grandsir@...>
Date:Monday, August 9, 1999, 13:00
Daniel Andreasson wrote:
> > Christophe a icrit: > > > I can! These are French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, > Romanian and a > > language I don't know the name in English but in French we call it > > "romanche" (spoken in Switzerland). > > Rhaeto-Romanic. >
Strange name. Where does it come from?
> > offical language of the state in the case of Romanche which shares > this > > place with French and other languages, maybe German and another one I > > don't remember). > > French, German, Rhaeto-Romanic and *Italian*. >
Three Romance languages and one Germanic one? I thought Switzerland was more Germanic than Romance but I was wrong I think (at least as for the languages).
> Daniel
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