Re: CHAT: weird names,was Re: conlanging,the ulti
| From: | Daniel Andreasson <daniel_noldo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 9, 1999, 13:37 |
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Christophe skrev:
> > Rhaeto-Romanic.
> >
> Strange name. Where does it come from?
Perhaps from some tribe called the Rhaetians or something,
but this is just a wild guess.
> > 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).
IIRC, German is spoken by 3/4 of the population (or somewhere
around that number), so Switzerland surely is more Germanic
than Romance.
Daniel