Indo-European · ISO 639-3 roh · rm
Romansh Language rumantsch
Romansh is an Indo-European language spoken by about 42,000 people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Romansh is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Romansh
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Italic
- Latino-Faliscan
- Latinic
- Imperial Latin
- Romance
- Italo-Western Romance
- Western Romance
- Shifted Western Romance
- Northwestern Shifted Romance
- Gallo-Rhaetian
- Romansh
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Romansh language
Romansh (rumantsch) is spoken by about 42,000 people, which makes it the 534th most spoken language in the world — just behind Kalaallisut (56,200) and ahead of Noon (38,000). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Gallo-Rhaetian group within the Italic branch.
Where is Romansh spoken?
Romansh is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Switzerland (44,302).
Romansh is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Switzerland.
Writing system and status
Romansh is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are French, Haitian, Morisyen, Lombard, Piemontese, Emilian and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 rm, ISO 639-3 roh.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.