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The Grisons is the only canton of Switzerland where Romansh is recognized as an official language. The only working language of the Three Leagues was German until 1794, when the assembly of the leagues declared German, Italian, Sursilvan, and Ladin (Putèr and Vallader) to have equal official standing. No explicit mention of any official ...
In addition, it provides weather services for the civil, military and private aviation. The office also carries out a program of research and development to understand the weather and climate in the Alps. They also officially represent Switzerland at the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva.
3 Weather. 4 References. ... Ferrera is a municipality in the Viamala Region in the Grisons, Switzerland. ... Ausserferrera in Romansh, German, ...
When Grisons became part of Switzerland in 1803, it had a population of roughly 73,000, of whom around 36,600 were Romansh speakers—many of them monolingual—living mostly in the Romansh-speaking valleys. [7] The number of Romansh speakers has remained roughly constant since that time (while the population of Switzerland has nearly quintupled).
The state is the only trilingual canton of Switzerland. [8] It is also the only one where Romansh, Switzerland's fourth national language, has official status. Romansh language and culture is an important part of local identity. [9] In 2020 the canton had a population of 200,096. [2] It is the least densely populated canton of Switzerland.
This viewpoint was countered with the belief that the Romansh language was a hybrid of both Italian and German, allowing the Romansh speakers to have a moderate understanding of the other two more widely used languages. By the mid-19th century, amidst a dwindling Romansh-speaking population, a renaissance of sorts appeared.
Trun is a municipality in the Surselva Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. The municipality of Schlans merged on 1 January 2012 into the municipality of Trun. [3] The village was formerly known as Truns and is referred to by that name in some older sources.
Donat Cadruvi (1923–1998) a Swiss lawyer, politician, and Romansh-language writer. He was a member of the Swiss National Council 1963–1971 and Mayor of Ilanz 1975–1978; Corina Casanova (born 1956 in Ilanz) the Federal Chancellor of Switzerland between 2008 and 2015