Sociolinguistics
Romansh is non one language however the class action of closely-related languages or dialects, all belonging to the personal of the Rhaetian languages. A class action of various Rhaetian languages spoken within Switzerland come termed Romansh; a more members of the class action come from either northern Italy: Friulian, spoken by around 500-600,000 humans in the n-east, & Ladin, spoken by around 20,000 in the Dolomite mountains of the Italian Tyrol.

A 5 big languages in the Romansh personal come Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter & Vallader. Puter & Vallader come every now and again considered a single language: Ladin. Ladinside is for instance associated using a language in Italy's Dolomite mountains likewise referred to as Ladin. A ISO 639 language codes are rm & roh.

Standardization
Romansh was standardized inside 1982 by Zürich-based linguist Heinrich Schmid. A standardized language, known as Rumantsch Grischun, has non been super easily accepted, & speakers of the different idiom tend to location of these an additional inside German. This is leading to an acceleration of the decline of the language. On the orthographic level, Schmid sought to avoid completely "odd-looking" spellings, sequentially to increase general acceptableness of the freshly idiom & its spelling. So, words by having is taken above from either German, making Romansh spelling a compromise between Romance (Italian, French) and German spelling.

A Lia Rumantscha is the umbrella organization for all Romansh associations. Its website will bring farther background facts.

Phonology
Consonants
A consonant phonemes of Romansh (Rumantsch Grischun) are placed call at the resulting chart:

!   !Bilabial !Labio-
dental !Dental and
alveolar !Alveolo-
palatal !Post-
alveolar !Palatal !Velar |- |Stop | align=center | |   | align=center | |   |   |   | align=center | |- |Affricate |   |   | align=center | | align=center | | align=center | |   |   |- |Nasal | align=center | |   | align=center | |   |   | align=center | | align=center | |- |Fricative |   | align=center | | align=center | |   | align=center | |   |   |- |Approximant |   |   | align=center | |   |   | align=center | |   |- |Lateral approximant |   |   | align=center | |   |   | align=center | |   |}

Vowels
A vowel phonemes of Romansh come shown in the table following:

! Monophthongs ! Front ! Back |- | Close | align=center | | align=center | |- | Mid | colspan=Two align=center | |- | Open-mid | align=center | | align=center | |- | Open | colspan=Deuce align=center | |}

! Diphthongs ! Nigher component
is front ! Nigher component
is back |- | Closing | align=center | | align=center | |- | Opening | align=center | |   |}

Schwa occurs only within unstressed syllables. Vowel length is predictable: Unstressed vowels come short. Stressed vowels within closed syllables (victims sustaining the coda) are: :long prior to *:short elsewhere Stressed vowels inside open syllables come: :short prior to voiceless consonants :long elsewhere