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They are a valuable learning tool for those learning English. If a link is given to the version of the page that was recorded then users may listen to the words while reading them. They are a valuable learning tool for auditory learners (people who learn most effectively by listening to information delivered orally).
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.
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.
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 ...
Like all other dialects of Romagna, Forlivese is a Western Romance language related to French, Romansh and Italian. However, the use of Forlivese is mostly limited to familiar terms and sentences, and is rare amongst Forlì inhabitants. Some pieces of literature and a recent translation of the Gospels are available.
In addition to the seven core vowels, in a number of words of foreign origin (predominantly French, but also German) the mid front rounded vowel /ø/ (rounded Romanian /e/; example word: bleu /blø/ 'light blue') and the mid central rounded vowel /ɵ/ (rounded Romanian /ə/; example word: chemin de fer /ʃɵˌmen dɵ ˈfer/ 'Chemin de Fer') have been preserved, without replacing them with any ...
Romance languages have a number of shared features across all languages: Romance languages are moderately inflecting, i.e. there is a moderately complex system of affixes (primarily suffixes) that are attached to word roots to convey grammatical information such as number, gender, person, tense, etc. Verbs have much more inflection than nouns.