Romansh has about 70,000 speakers in SE Switzerland and was recognized
in that country in 1937 as a national language, co-official with
German, French, and Italian.
Rhaeto-Romanic is generic name for several related dialects of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. They include Romansh, an official Swiss language; Ladin; and Friulian (See map).
All of these languages proceed from the Latin language.
Rhaeto-Romanic is generic name for several related dialects of the