Ludovicus Posted August 31, 2007 Report Share Posted August 31, 2007 Thanks to Docoflover's post on Ladino, I became interested in the other minor and lesser known children of the Latin Language. Rumantsch or Rhaeto-Roman is one of four national languages of Switzerland. Here's a sound file link: http://www.lowlands-l.net/anniversary/rumantsch.php The Lowlands site allows you to listen to a host of minor and major world languages. See what you started, Docoflover! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docoflove1974 Posted September 1, 2007 Report Share Posted September 1, 2007 I love it! (Get it...love? hehe) I used to have a link to other 'minor' Romance languages...let me see what I have lurking around my bookmarks, and see if I can't post some more on Romansch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted September 1, 2007 Report Share Posted September 1, 2007 Salve! Guess what... even if as its name sugests, this website's area of expertise is the Lowlands varieties of Germanic languages (with no less than 20 of Low Saxon alone, plus 15 of English), Romance languages are well represented: Latin itself, 14 natural varieties (mostly "minor"), 4 contact varieties ("creoles"), 2 amerindian (romance influenced) and 1 constructed variety. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docoflove1974 Posted September 1, 2007 Report Share Posted September 1, 2007 I just looked at the list...not just the Romance list, but the list of languages represented already, and the ones they are also trying to get. What a wonderful project! I used to know of a similar one...the "Our Father" prayer done in various modern and ancient languages, including Medieval and earlier versions. I can't find the link I'm thinking about, but here is a similar source: MyJesus.ru--the descriptions are written in English and Russian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted September 2, 2007 Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 Salve! BTW, checking out the title of this thread, I think any language is "obscure" only for the people that don't speak it fluently. If we should trust in Ethnologue database, there are like six thousand "obscure" languages for each one of us thriving around the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docoflove1974 Posted September 2, 2007 Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 Very true...but mind you that many of those languages have only a handful of native speakers left...which is true for the Rhaeto-Romance dialects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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