Rhaeto-Cisalpine

[zanipolo]

some links to Rhaeto-Cisalpine languages, stretching from the Julian Alps to Barcelona.

http://www.squidoo.com/padaneis

http://www.romaniaminor.net/ianua/Ianua07/03.pdf

http://www.romaniaminor.net/ianua/Ianua08/07.pdf

http://www.romaniaminor.net/ianua/Ianua09/03.pdf

parts 1, 2 and 3

Enjoy , some history in it

 

[Ruiy]

Very remarkable contribution; thanks buddy. I must say I was not aware of this subdivision of the Romance languages​​. I guess they will have a minority of speakers without geographic dispersion.
Anyway, we will see that we say these pages.


See you.








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[Estel]

They don't stretch "from the Alps to Barcelona". They are what have been traditionally known as Rhaeto-Romance and Gallo-Italian.

What is said in the prologue is that they are more related to both Oil (French) and Occ (Occitan and Catalan) than to Standard Italian, which is partly true.

I don't know whether the idea of a single standard for all those languages is good or not. The differences between, say, Romansh, Venetian and Piedmontese, are far too remarkable nowadays, and the speakers don't quite see each other as part of the same group. Even Western Lombards say to speak a different language from Eastern Lombards. It doesn't help either that their territories have not been historically united, but a series of independent republics. A unified Rhaeto-Cisalpine language, centered either on Milan or Venice, might have given a powerful Romance language, but this has not happened and is certainly not due to happen now. Specially when some of the languages are already standardized or in the process.