What are Rhaeto-Romance languages?
Romansh has about 70,000 speakers in SE Switzerland and was recognized in that country in 1937 as a national language, co-official with German, French, and Italian.
The Romance languages (usually known as Romanic languages, or Neolatin languages) are a department of the Indo-European language household comprising all of the languages that descend from Latin, the language of old Rome. They have greater than seven-hundred million local audio system global, most often within the Americas, Europe, and Africa, as good as many smaller areas scattered for the period of the arena. Romance languages have their roots in Vulgar Latin, the trendy sociolect of Latin spoken by means of infantrymen, settlers and traders of the Empire, as wonderful from the Classical sort of the language utilized by the Roman intellectuals, and mostly in writing. Between two hundred BC and AD one hundred fifty, the growth of the Empire, along with its administrative and academic insurance policies, made Latin the dominant local language over an discipline spanning from the Iberian Peninsula to the Black Sea, and from the Maghreb to Great Britain.
A number of Romance (Latin-Europe) language spoken exclusively in (Latin-)Switserland.
