Superseded by German – Romansh has lost geographical size – News




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  • Geographically, Romansh has lost some of its size.
  • The two Graubünden communities Surses and Muntogna da Schons are no longer assigned to Rhaeto-Romanic, but to German Switzerland.
  • The number of people who speak Romansh remains stable.

This was announced by the Federal Statistical Office (BFS). However, according to the FSO, the shift to the detriment of the Romansh area since the last survey five years ago cannot be explained by a decrease in the number of Romansh-speaking people in Switzerland.

The number of Rhaeto-Romanic speakers has been almost stable at just over 40,000 for decades. Around 40 percent of them lived in the Romansh area, 60 percent in the canton of Graubünden.

More German speakers

The FSO continues to write that the number of German-speaking people in the traditional Rhaeto-Romanic communities in Graubünden has been increasing since the counts began in 1860 in the tourist communities.

The tourist resorts in the Upper Engadin had already switched from Rhaeto-Romanic to German-speaking Switzerland around 1888 and the communities in Domleschg around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Legend:

Surses and Muntogna da Schons probably don’t have such a no-parking sign. (Picture from the little village of Stierva, high above the Graubünden Albula Valley.

KEYSTONE/Arno Balzarini

This change was strongly accentuated in the course of the second half of the 20th century. From 2000 to the last revision of the language areas in 2017, however, the language borders remained stable.


SRF 4 News, December 27, 2022, 10 a.m.;


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