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Language code: rm

Technical information about ISO 639 language code rm

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The table below provides technical details for the Romansh language, designated by the rm code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

rm

Name

Official

Romansh

Native

Rumantsch grischun

Family
Romance
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
SursilvanSutsilvanSurmiranPuterVallader
Related languages
LadinFriulianItalianOccitan
Key facts
Descends from the spoken Latin once used by Roman settlers in the AlpsConsists of five main idioms that are only partly mutually intelligibleA supra-regional written standard called Rumantsch Grischun was introduced in 1982Vocabulary includes numerous borrowings from German due to centuries of contactThe first complete Bible translation into Romansh appeared in 1679.
Sample phrase

Allegra, co vai?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Romansh belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Romance subgroup. It is one of the official languages of Switzerland and is written using the Latin script. It is estimated that there are more than 40,000 speakers worldwide, primarily in the canton of Graubünden.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Switzerland

40K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Romansh speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

rm-CH – Romansh (Switzerland)

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