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unusual facts about Rhaeto-Romance languages


Ladin

Rhaeto-Romance languages, a group of languages in the Alps comprising the Friulian, Ladin and Romansh languages


Americana

In some Romance languages (including Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan and Italian), Americana is the feminine noun or adjective referring to women or objects from the American Continent declined in the feminine gender.

Catalan verbs

This tense is quite unique among Romance languages, only shared with some Gascon and Aragonese (Benasque, Gistaín) dialects, and it seems to have existed in Catalan at least since the 13th century.

Friulian language

In Friulian as in other Romance languages, nouns are either masculine or feminine (for example "il mûr" ("the wall", masculine), "la cjadree" ("the chair", feminine).

Genoese dialect

Ligurian is listed by Ethnologue as a language in its own right, of the Romance branch, and not to be confused with the ancient Ligurian language.

German adjectives

No ending is applied otherwise: predicative adjectives, those in English separated from the noun by is or are, are not declined and are indistinguishable from adverbs, unlike in Romance and North Germanic languages.

Henry Alfred Todd

In 1910, with Raymond Weeks and other scholars, he founded the Romanic Review, the first learned review in English devoted entirely to the Romance languages.

Johannes Lucius

In his book Lucius pointed out the difference between the Romance and Slavic Dalmatia, the habits of the people and the cultural borderlines.

Krzysztof Warlikowski

He studied history, philosphy and Romance languages at Jagiellonian University and also philosophy, French language and literature at at École Pratique Des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne.

La Spezia–Rimini Line

The La SpeziaRimini Line (sometimes also referred to as the MassaSenigallia Line), in the linguistics of the Romance languages, is a line that demarcates a number of important isoglosses that distinguish Romance languages south and east of the line from Romance languages north and west of it.

Ladin

Ladin language, a language in northern Italy, often classified as a Rhaeto-Romance language

Lu indialett di lu Uašt

Lu indialett di lu Uašt (the dialect of Vasto) is a Romance language spoken in the town of Vasto.

Northwestern Europe

However there's no longer a sharp distinction as Germanic languages or Romance Languages have at least co-official status in all of the traditionally Celtic polities and the region has a history of Protestantism that differentiates it from its Mediterranean Latin or Eastern European Slavic neighbors.

Scheibenschlagen

In Danis (Swiss canton Graubünden) the custom is called trer schibettas (Rhaeto-Romanic for Scheibenschlagen).


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