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The Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun (abbreviation DRG) is the biggest dictionary of the Romansh language. Founded in 1904 by the Indo-Europeanist Robert von Planta and the Societad Retorumantscha, which still bears the responsibility for editing it. It comprises the Romansh dialects and idioms spoken in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
To learn about their family life, Beard looks at the thousands of tombstones of ordinary Romans, their children and slaves. Unwanted babies were left outside to die. Of the children that were wanted, half died by the age of ten. Children were put to work at manual labour as soon as they were able, often from the age of five.
Romansh is one of the descendant languages of the spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire, which by the 5th century AD replaced the Celtic and Raetic languages previously spoken in the area. Romansh retains a small number of words from these languages. Romansh has also been strongly influenced by German in vocabulary and morphosyntax.
Illiterate Roman subjects would have someone such as a government scribe read or write their official documents for them. [34] Laws and edicts were posted in writing as well as read out. [35] Public art and religious ceremonies were ways to communicate imperial ideology regardless of language spoken or ability to read. [36]
Lays of Ancient Rome, 1881 edition. Lays of Ancient Rome is an 1842 collection of narrative poems, or lays, by Thomas Babington Macaulay.Four of these recount heroic episodes from early Roman history with strong dramatic and tragic themes, giving the collection its name.
In Switzerland several names are Roman references: the Romands and the Romansh people. Several names derive from the Latin Romani (such as the Romanians , Aromanians and Istro-Romanians ), or from the Germanic walhaz (a term originally referring to the Romans; adopted in the form Vlach as the self-designation of the Megleno-Romanians ).
Just like all other Romance languages, Old Romagnol developed out of Vulgar Latin.Its usage covered a period of three centuries. While there was several mentions of Romagnol in medieval times, such as in Dante Alighieri's De vulgari eloquentia, the first texts in Romagnol appeared around the end of the Italian Renaissance, in the 16th century, when Romagnol had fully developed into separate ...