Romansch

Romansch (Ger. Churwätsch, from the town of Chur), a name applied to the Romance dialect, or rather agglomeration of cognate dialects, spoken from the Grisons to Friuli on the Adriatic. Ascoli includes all varieties under the common name of Ladino, although strictly that term applies to the dialect of the Engadine, as Rumonsch does to that of the upper Rhine valley. There are dictionaries by Conradi (Zur. 1820) and Carisch (Chur, 1821). See also J. Ulrich's Rhätoromanische Chrestomathie (1882–83) and Rhätoromanische Texte (1883–84).