Besides the obvious answer, German, there are at least 47 living Germanic languages around today. As second or third languages, French and Italian themselves are better known in Romania than in Romania's neighbors. chemare, Ital. ", "Care este satul din România unde se vorbește o limbă secretă? Found inside – Page 3336BT Mountains - Alberta Rae family USE Ray family Raeber family USE Raber family ... UF Ladin language Rhaeto - Romanic language Romansh language Rumansh ... These are most common forms in Sursilvan: The syntax of Romansh has not been thoroughly investigated so far. At the same time, Romanian-language newspapers and journals began to appear, such as Basarabia (1906), Viața Basarabiei (1907), Moldovanul (1907), Luminătorul (1908), Cuvînt moldovenesc (1913), Glasul Basarabiei (1913). Languages are like one huge family. To compare, let’s look at “Good day” in the Romance languages. There are also a few changes shared with Dalmatian, such as /ɡn/ (probably phonetically [ŋn]) → [mn] (Lat. Found inside – Page 496... Russell J., 409 Roberts, John, 323 Romansh language, 204 Rosetta Stone, 122 Sabir, 250 Salishan language family, 232 Salzmann, Zdenek, 100 Sanskrit, 96, ... Ricarda Liver, "Le romanche (rhéto-roman) des Grisons", Carigiet, Werner in Schläpfer & Bickel 2000, p. 238. A sentence is negated by adding a negative particle. Gallo is spoken in the eastern part of Brittany. [115] They were formed, as in other Romance languages, from the Latin demonstrative pronouns. Romance languages - Romance languages - Classification methods and problems: Though it is quite clear which languages can be classified as Romance, on the basis primarily of lexical (vocabulary) and morphological (structural) similarities, the subgrouping of the languages within the family is less straightforward. [99][100] As a result, much Romanian vocabulary dealing with religion, ritual, and hierarchy is Slavic. quando → Rom. [88], The Romanian vocabulary became predominantly influenced by French and, to a lesser extent, Italian in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[89]. Â is used only inside words; î is used at the beginning or the end of non-compound words and in the middle of compound words. Found insideJ.von Planta's An account of the Romansh language of 1776, presented to the ... but was born in Castegna, Graubünden, of a famous family of the canton. place, Ital. Apparently northern France was the “epicenter” of the Gallo-Romance language family. Kundert (2007). la) is distinguished from an indefinite article (masc. "did you see the church?". Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The earliest examples go back to Carolingian times and show the influence of Germanic law. At first it seemed that the Germanic languages and the Romance languages were completely unrelated. Pronouns for the polite forms in Putèr and Vallader are always capitalized to distinguish them from third person pronouns: Eau cugnuosch a Sia sour "I know your sister" and Eau cugnuosch a sia sour "I know his/her sister". Romanian descended from the Vulgar Latin spoken in the Roman provinces of Southeastern Europe. According to the Constitution of Romania of 1991, as revised in 2003, Romanian is the official language of the Republic. Apart from placenames, such words are found in landscape features, plant and animal names unique to the Alps, and tools and methods related to alpine transhumance. Downloaded from, This page was last edited on 18 September 2021, at 02:20. p. 134, "Die drei Sprachen des Kanton sind als ‹Landesprachen› gewährleistet", Richter (2005:949) in Cordey (2008). Add to Wishlist. The creator of the webcomic Stand Still. The oldest extant document written in Romanian remains Neacșu's letter (1521) and was written using the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, which was used until the late 19th century. Some unique innovations include tedlar 'to listen' from Latin titulare and patertgar 'to think' from pertractare.[154]. Grünert, Matthias (2013). In G. Darms, C. Riatsch & C. Solèr (eds. Slavic loanwords are highlighted: The sentence rewritten to exclude all loanwords. Engadinese (s)cumanzar, Italian cominciare, French commencer. A skyscraper, which is a direct loan translation from English in many Romance languages (as in French gratte-ciel, Italian grattacielo), is a loan translation of German Wolkenkratzer (literally 'cloud-scraper') in Sursilvan: il sgrattaneblas (from sgrattar 'to scratch' and neblas 'clouds'). dar in canaster, Engad. Examples include pretensiun ‘opinion, claim’ vs. pretaisa, defensiun ‘defense’ vs. defaisa, or confirmaziun ‘confirmation’ vs. Metaphony also occurs in most northern Italian dialects, but only by (usually lost) final *i; apparently, final *u was lowered to *o (usually lost) before metaphony could take effect. Linguists manage to set up genetic classifications by comparing languages and trying to define constant rules about their … The 1991 Declaration of Independence names the official language Romanian. sdom/sdong, Engad. [59], Since 2013, the Romanian Language Day is celebrated on every 31 August. In a few cases, there was a semantic shift, such as uaffen, "tool", derived from Waffe, "weapon". Qing you chuan qi (A romance at a post-house), also known as Qing you ji, is a play in two juan, written by Wu Bing (1595--1647), a famed late-Ming playwright from a family of officials in Changzhou. p. 95, Original: "Ist die Romansche Sprache ungemein vortheilhaft, um deste geschwinder die von der Lateinischen abstammenden Sprachen Frankreichs, Italiens, Spaniens etc. Romanian is the only Romance language where definite articles are enclitic: that is, attached to the end of the noun (as in Scandinavian, Bulgarian and Albanian), instead of in front (proclitic). When possible, such differences are described. They are a subgroup of the Italic languages in the Indo-European language family. The fable The Fox and the Crow by Aesop with a French version by Jean de La Fontaine; translated into the Dachsprache Rumantsch Grischun and all six dialects of Romansh: Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, and the similar-looking but noticeably different-sounding dialects Vallader and Jauer,[179] as well as a translation into English. The articles, as well as most adjectives and pronouns, agree in gender, number and case with the noun they modify. The non-Engadinese dialects retain anceiver ~ entschaiver 'to begin', from Latin incipere, otherwise found only in Romanian începe, whereas Surmiran and Engadinese (Putèr, Vallader) and all other Romance languages retain a reflex of Latin *cuminitiāre, e.g. 3, octombrie 2004, p. 6 (IV); nr. Several Romansh-language magazines are also published regularly, including the youth magazine Punts and the yearly publications Calender Romontsch and Chalender Ladin. [101] The extent of this borrowing is such that some scholars once mistakenly viewed Romanian as a Slavic language. Most languages are written with a mixture of two distinct but phonetically identical variants or "cases" of the alphabet: majuscule ("uppercase" or "capital letters"), derived from Roman stone-carved letter shapes, and minuscule ("lowercase"), derived from Carolingian writing and Medieval quill pen handwriting which were later adapted by printers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The sample consists of 19 young adults from the Italian-speaking part of Grisons and 21 from the Romansh-speaking part. This is the scheme followed by, West vs. East. The final verse of this song, Eu nu mă las de limba noastră, de limba noastră cea română is translated in English as "I won't forsake our language, our Romanian language". The Romance languages (also sometimes called Romanic languages) are a language family in the Indo-European languages. dulcem → Rom. Romanian nouns also preserve the neuter gender, although instead of functioning as a separate gender with its own forms in adjectives, the Romanian neuter became a mixture of masculine and feminine. The most spoken Romance languages are Lavin 2011, 105–124. biagear, Surm. [9] These two languages are now spoken in lands to the south of the Jireček Line.[11]. [21], In Palia de la Orăștie (1582) stands written ".[...] Gravity. by Anna Laura Lepschy. [17], The Polish chronicler Stanislaw Orzechowski (Orichovius) notes in 1554 that In their language they call themselves Romini from the Romans, while we call them Wallachians from the Italians). [62][63] The Constitution of Moldova names the state language of the country Moldovan. Found inside4: The Kälin family moves from Luzern to a small village in Grison, where Romansh is the only official language. The 8-yearold son of the family, ... Surs. As in most other Romance languages, Romansh nouns belong to two grammatical genders: masculine and feminine. coxa → Rom. In Hertsa Raion of Ukraine as well as in other villages of Chernivtsi Oblast and Zakarpattia Oblast, Romanian has been declared a "regional language" alongside Ukrainian as per the 2012 legislation on languages in Ukraine. Language Families. Ștefan Pascu, Documente străine despre români, ed. In areas where Romansh either is still spoken or has disappeared recently, Romansh words are even more common in the local dialects of German. In 1905 and 1906, the Bessarabian zemstva asked for the re-introduction of Romanian in schools as a "compulsory language", and the "liberty to teach in the mother language (Romanian language)". lai 'marriage', derived from Latin legem (accusative singular of lēx 'law'), with the meaning of Middle High German ê, ewe. zu erlernen, wie wir an der Romanschen Jugend sehen, welche in jene Länder reiset, und ihre Sprachen sehr schnell erlernt. "An invaluable reference for all researchers in the Romance languages. Since very little is known about the Celtic language once spoken in Grisons, and almost nothing about Raetic, words or placenames thought to come from them are usually simply referred to as "pre-Roman". Romanian finally became the official language with the Constitution of 1923. piace); another similarity with Italian is the change from [ke] or [ki] to [tʃe] or [tʃi] (Lat. Distribution of the Romanian language in Romania, Moldova and surroundings. Deciding what’s a “language” and what’s a “dialect” is a tricky business, because languages really exist on a spectrum, rather than in separate boxes. Words are given in their conventional spellings. The modern Romance languages have a high number of lexical overlap. Words from Lombard and Venetian related to crafts include Ladin marangun 'carpenter' (← Venetian marangon), as opposed to lennari in other Romansh dialects, chazzoula 'trowel' (← Lombard cazzola), or filadè 'spinning wheel' (← Lombard filadel). The Engadinese dialects on the other hand have adopted aspiradur from Italian aspiratore, which, however, does not mean "vacuum cleaner". [27], The first Romanian grammar was published in Vienna in 1780. Current price is $37.49, Original price is $49.95. Language purists attempted to coin new Romansh words instead, which were occasionally successful in entering popular usage. German also often serves as a model for the creation of new words. In the breakaway territory of Transnistria, it is co-official with Ukrainian and Russian. lètg, Put. Walloon [wln] (A language of Belgium) - Southeastern (1) Arpitan [frp] (A language of France) - Rhaetian (3) Friulian [fur] (A language of Italy) Ladin [lld] (A language of Italy) Romansh [roh] (A language of Switzerland) - Ibero-Romance (13) - East Iberian (1) [28] [55] Small Romanian-speaking communities are to be found in Kazakhstan and Russia. The major languages of the family include French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. Close. [9][10] Most regions where Romanian is now widely spoken—Bessarabia, Bukovina, Crișana, Maramureș, Moldova, and significant parts of Muntenia—were not incorporated in the Roman Empire. The use of the denomination Romanian (română) for the language and use of the demonym Romanians (Români) for speakers of this language predates the foundation of the modern Romanian state. An example is Surs. Categories: Identity, Language. Chinese. Balkan Romance comprises Romanian (or Daco-Romanian), Aromanian (or Macedo-Romanian), Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian, according to the most widely accepted classification of the Romance languages. Romance language spoken predominantly in the southeastern Swiss canton of Grisons (Graubünden), For broader coverage of the modern language group from which, From top left to bottom right: Sutsilvan inscription on a house in, The traditional Romansh-speaking parts of Switzerland (dark green), Origins and development until modern times, Romansh during the 19th and 20th centuries, Official status in Switzerland and language politics, Official status in the canton of the Grisons, Liver in Schläpfer & Bickel 2000. pp. Found inside – Page 3112BT Mountains - Alberta Rae family USE ... UF Ladin language Rhaeto - Romanic language Romansh language Rumansh language NT Friulian dialect Ladin dialect ... The Cyrillic alphabet remained in (gradually decreasing) use until 1860, when Romanian writing was first officially regulated. The usual word order in sentences is subject–verb–object (SVO). In Moldova, it is sometimes referred to as the "Moldovan language" A definite article (masc. In music, choirs have a long tradition in the Romansh-speaking areas. In particular, all Romance languages capitalize (use uppercase for the first letter of) the following words: the first word of each complete sentence, most words in names of people, places, and organizations, and most words in titles of books. patru, "four"; cf. [140] Existing studies usually approach the subject from a historical perspective, taking particular interest in pre-Roman substratum, archaic words preserved only in Romansh, or in loan words from German. It is Romance language and it is a part of the Indo-European family of languages. Hauptsprachen in der Schweiz, 2019. [141] Such words include: Like all languages, Romansh has its own archaisms, that is, words derived from Latin that in most other Romance languages have fallen out of use or taken niche meanings. alach, Vall. Found inside – Page 197French, German and Romansh in twentieth-century Switzerland Uriel Weinreich ... vast majority of this language group, may be able to get along on Romansh ... 15 Kra–Dai languages (155,628 articles, 1,138 active accounts) 16 Niger–Congo languages (152,610 articles, 721 active accounts) 17 Creoles and pidgins (75,841 articles, 185 active accounts) 18 Mongolic languages (25,601 articles, 138 active accounts) 19 Quechuan languages (22,905 articles, 40 active accounts) Language Families. The Romance languages (less commonly Latin languages, or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the third and eighth centuries. chiamare) and [ɡl] → [ɡj] (Lat. ghiaccia, ghiaccio, Lat. Even Cicero wrote plainly in personal correspondence. quattro) or /k/ (Lat. Even before the 19th century, Romanian came in contact with several other languages. … 133–134, Eugen Munteanu. Povestea unei limbi inventate de români", "Languages and cultures in contact: The French language and the maritime terminology", "Lexikale Einflüsse im Rumänischen aus dem österreichischen Deutsch" ("Lexical influences of 'Austrian'-German on the Romanian Language"), "Câte litere are cel mai lung cuvânt din limba română și care este singurul termen ce conține toate vocalele", "Curiozități lingvistice: cele mai lungi cuvinte din limba română", https://books.google.com/books?id=Zt5TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA269, Introduction, Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, "Gheorghe Duca: Trebuie schimbată atitudinea de sorginte proletară față de savanți și în genere față de intelectuali", "When Could Be Dated the 'Earliest Slavic Borrowings in Romanian'? There is a single written standard (literary) Romanian language used by all speakers, regardless of region. Main articles: Eastern Romance languages, Proto-Romanian language, Eastern Romance substratum, Slavic superstratum in Romanian, List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin, and Origin of the Romanians. [168], Especially noticeable and often criticized by language purists are particles such as aber, schon, halt, grad, eba, or zuar, which have become an integral part of everyday Romansh speech, especially in Sursilvan. Cf. Romance languages its a family that has 5 members that one can master. Daco-Romanian) language, and thus only its dialectal variations are discussed here. Typically, the native word is a noun and the learned loan is an adjective. This scheme divides the various languages along the. Italo-Western vs. Eastern vs. Southern. However, the other Eastern Romance languages kept these sounds, so it's likely old Romanian had them as well. The word pur has given rise to derived words such as pura 'farmwife, female farmer' or puranchel 'small-time farmer', as has buob ‘boy’ from Swiss German bueb ‘boy’, with the derivations buoba ‘girl’ and buobanaglia ‘crowd of children’. The first complete translation of the Bible, the Bibla da Cuera was published between 1717 and 1719. Verb tenses are divided into synthetic forms (present, imperfect) and analytic forms (perfect, pluperfect, future, passive) distinguished by the grammatical moods indicative, subjunctive, conditional, and imperative. [8] To distinguish it within the Eastern Romance languages, in comparative linguistics it is called Daco-Romanian as opposed to its closest relatives, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian. Does it feel a bit confusing? The Romance languages (also sometimes called Romanic languages) are a language family in the Indo-European languages. Others are words for animals such as lodola 'lark' (← lodola) or randulina 'swallow' (← Lombard randulina), as well as Ladin scarafagi/scarvatg 'beetle' (← scarafaggio). The Romansh people (also spelled Romansch, Rumantsch, or Romanche; Romansh: rumantschs, rumàntschs, romauntschs or romontschs) are a Romance ethnic group, the speakers of the Romansh language, native to the Swiss canton of Grisons (Graubünden) . [164] A more recent example of a loan translation is the verb tradir 'to betray', which has taken on the additional meaning of German verraten of 'to give away'[165] as in tradir in secret 'to give away a secret', originally covered by the verb revelar. The Romance languages (also sometimes called Romanic languages) are a language family in the Indo-European languages. They started from Vulgar Latin (In the Latin Language, "vulgar" is the word for "common," so "Vulgar Latin" means "Common Latin"). The biggest Romance languages are Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian. There are thousands of spoken languages in the world and most can be traced back in history to show how they are related to each other. Vowel length is predictable: The amount of diphthongs varies significantly between dialects. Anderson, Stephen R. "Romansh (Rumantsch)", in, Bundesamt für Statistik. Words inherited directly from Latin are highlighted: The same sentence, with French and Italian loanwords highlighted instead: The sentence rewritten to exclude French and Italian loanwords. [citation needed]. The romance languages are all variations on vulgar Latin. Found insideThis volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa. It introduces the beginners to the diversity of the Romance family and it keeps the 'veterans' on their toes with its abundance of details. Romanian is also an official language of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia along with five other languages. The more long-lived newspapers included the Gasetta Romontscha in the Surselva, the Fögl Ladin in the Engadine, Casa Paterna/La Punt in the Sutselva, and La Pagina da Surmeir in the Surmeir. Found inside – Page 192The languages which did not occupy the national grade such as Romansh, Provencal, Catalan and Sardinian. The family tree of the Romance languages has been ... Ad sira lé la sèra seimpar la finéstra prima da seina. Mitteilungen VBK ikg, (10):23–27. It also contains an extensive English - Indo-European, Indo-European - English vocabulary, as well as detailed etymological notes, designed to provide readers with an easy access to the information they require.An essential reference source ... Spoken by only some 1% of Switzerland's 7.4 million inhabitants, it is the smallest of Switzerland's official languages in terms of number of speakers. The orthography of Sutsilvan is particularly complex, allowing for different pronunciations of the vowels depending on the regional dialect, and is not treated in this table. This newspaper includes articles in all five dialects and in Rumantsch Grischun. Gallo language. Romanian is also spoken within communities of Romanian and Moldovan immigrants in the United States, Canada and Australia, although they do not make up a large homogeneous community statewide. The langue d'oïl branch is again at the forefront of innovation, with no less than five of the seven long vowels diphthongizing (only high vowels were spared). In addition, some words, neuter in most dialects of German, are masculine in Grisons-German. supetliar) 'to beg', derived from Swiss German bettle with the same meaning. Romanian, for example, is an Indo-European language, but it is of the Romance language subfamily. Found inside'Test yourself' questions throughout the book make it easier for students to analyze data from unfamiliar languages. [32], 1 Many are Moldavians who were deported Loss of final vowels phonemicized the long vowels that used to be automatic concomitants of stressed open syllables. Like most natural languages, Romanian dialects are part of a dialect continuum. The term “romance language” doesn’t refer to saying “I love you” or finding the perfect partner. general-geography; The Romance languages evolved from Germanic roots. [11] Other regions—Banat, western Muntenia, Oltenia and Transylvania—formed the Roman province of Dacia Traiana for about 170 years. (sorry about the quality. The influence of German has been seen in different ways by linguists and language activists. The University of Chernivtsi in western Ukraine trains teachers for Romanian schools in the fields of Romanian philology, mathematics and physics.[76]. [101][99] The number of high-frequency Slavic-derived words is also believed to indicate contact or cohabitation with South Slavic tribes from around the 6th century, though it is disputed where this took place (see Origin of the Romanians). Romansh speakers often simply adopted the German words, such as il zug 'the train' or il banhof 'the train station'. Radio and television broadcasts in Romansh are produced by the Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha, which is part of the Swiss public broadcasting company SRG SSR. Since 1938 Romansh has been a “national” language of Switzerland for cantonal, though not federal, purposes; a referendum in 1996, however, accorded it semiofficial status. Romance Languages Paleography Reading and interpretation of post-1500 handwriting within historical contexts, in vernacular scripts of Romance languages, in sources useful in family… Ein italienischer Streifzug durch die Rumantschia. Less integrated into the Romansh verbal system are constructions following the pattern of far il ('doing the') + a German infinitive. This order, however, has no application to other government institutions and neither has Law 3462 of 1989 (which provided for the means of transliterating of Cyrillic to Latin) been amended to reflect these changes; thus, these institutions, along with most Moldovans, prefer to use the spelling adopted in 1989 (when the language with Latin script became official). But smaller languages like Catalan, Galician, Sardinian, Piedmontese and Neapolitan also populate the family. As well as in other, stylistic variations. After achieving his jin shi degree, Wu Bing assumed the post of magistrate of Puqi, Hubei Province. In the following, each bullet item is a known or suspected language family. Romansh had a rich oral tradition before the appearance of Romansh writing, but apart from songs such as the Canzun da Sontga Margriata, virtually none of it survives. Other examples are memia (adv.) There are other languages as well, such as Catalan, Occitan, Romansh, Galician, Corsican, Sicilian and Rhaeto-Romance, but unfortunately, these are not recognized as national languages (except Romansh, which is the fourth official language of Switzerland). 1 (35), martie 2004, p. 7 (II); nr. Extreme lenition (i.e. The verb morphology of Romanian has shown the same move towards a compound perfect and future tense as the other Romance languages. The Italian Language Today. circus → Rom. In the process of lexical modernization, much of the native Latin stock have acquired doublets from other Romance languages, thus forming a further and more modern and literary lexical layer. Found inside – Page 47Most of the elite in the Romansh areas also spoke both German and Italian since they ... Romansh remained the language of the home and of family feelings . In final positions after consonants, a short /i/ can be deleted, surfacing only as the palatalization of the preceding consonant (e.g., [mʲ]). The Italian dialectologist Ascoli for instance described Romansh as "a body that has lost its soul and taken on an entirely foreign one in its place" in the 1880s. - … They started from Vulgar Latin (in Latin, "vulgar" is the word for "common" and so "Vulgar Latin" means "Common Latin"). Examples include baselgia 'church' (Vegliote bašalka, Romanian biserică, French basilique for a basilica), nuidis 'grudgingly, reluctantly' from Latin invitus, urar 'to pray' (Portuguese orar, Romanian a ura – to wish), aura 'weather' (Old French ore, Aromanian avrî), scheiver 'carnival',[152] cudesch 'book', the last two of which are only found in Romansh. Diacritics are also used to mark word stress, to indicate exceptional pronunciation of letters in certain words, and to distinguish words with same pronunciation (homophones). dulce, Ital. Other examples include Surs. Available Immediately After Purchase. The Romance Languages (Routledge Language Family Series) 4.4 out of 5 stars (9) Kindle Edition . Overall, it is taught as a foreign language in 43 countries around the world.[78]. A language profile for Romansh. Punctuation signs which follow a text in parentheses always follow the final bracket. Get a detailed look at the language, from population to dialects and usage. The Televisiun Rumantscha airs regular broadcasts on SF 1, which are subtitled in German. In the Engadinese written languages, Putèr and Vallader, Italian-influenced spellings, learned words, and derivations were previously abundant, for instance in Zaccaria Pallioppi's 1895 dictionary, but came under scrutiny at the start of the 20th century and were gradually eliminated from the written language. A project to compile together all known historic and modern Romansh vocabulary is the Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun, first published in 1904, with the 13th edition currently in preparation. Found inside – Page 362... Finno - Ugric , language families . In the Indo - European family , Portuguese , Spanish , Catalan , French , Romansh , Ladin , Friulian , Italian , and ... A single verb in French, for example, can have up to 40 different forms (conjugated according to tense, number, and person). 4 (38), decembrie 2004, p. 6 (V). Found inside – Page 3However , the family resemblance has persisted over the millennia and the ... Romanian , Romansh ( the fourth national language of Switzerland , spoken in ... [7] It is an official and national language of both Romania and Moldova and is one of the official languages of the European Union. sdun 'spoon', which is also found in Ladin as sciadon and Friulian as sedòn and is thought to go back to Ostrogothic *skeitho, and it was once probably common throughout Northern Italy. The Latin Union reports 28 million speakers for Romanian, out of whom 24 million are native speakers of the language: "Istoria limbii române" ("History of the Romanian Language"), II, Academia Română, Bucharest, 1969. This language family is further divided into 6 subgroups: Katla, Atlantic-Congo, Ijo, Dogon, Mande, and Rashad. In Sursilvan, the word ogna 'flat cake' can be found, which is derived from Italian lasagna, with the initial las- having been mistaken for the plural article, and the vowel having been adapted to Sursilvan sound patterns through analogy with words such as muntogna 'mountain'. 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