How to Use Romansh in a Sentence

Romansh

noun
  • The numbers haven’t budged much, but Romansh now sits in a kind of bureaucratic stalemate.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Another is that Romansh became a refuge when your larger ambitions went to ground.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • On the cantonal level, Romansh’s survival comes down to money.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Technology may yet decide Romansh’s fate.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • By the seventies, Romansh was losing ground; although the number of speakers inched up, the share of the Swiss population who spoke it shrank.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • What Cathomas perhaps overlooked was that German had unified itself by erasing languages like Romansh.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The Zurich researchers had spun out a startup, later folded into a larger language-services firm, Supertext, and saw Romansh as a perfect test case.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • In the Grisons, the canton where villagers once voted on whether to become Protestant or remain Catholic, individual communities could still hold a vote on which Romansh to teach.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Corporate clients often expect high-quality translation of internal jargon that behaves like a private dialect; Romansh, with its sparse training corpus and multiple variants, was a real-world version of that puzzle.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • An influx of German-speaking workers arrived to help with reconstruction, and the town’s language altered to German before Romansh had established a literary tradition.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • German is the most prevalent, but French is the default in the west of the country, Italian in the south (nearest to the borders of those countries), while Romansh is more obscure and pops up in a couple of cantons (states, or counties) towards the east.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • Romansh, which sounds closer to northern-Italian dialects than to the modern language spoken in Florence or Rome, is a battered remnant of spoken Late Latin which escaped standardization mostly by being tucked away in the Alps.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025

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