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“Death of Romansh”

Trevor | 25 April 2005 11:20 AM | Splog

A frequently heard complaint re regional nationalists like our bunch is that they play the diversity card to central government while rigidly suppressing variety, principally of a linguistic nature, in their own backyard. Here (via Onze Taal) is an example of the kind of thing they use to justify this stance: the lingering death of Swiss Romansh due, it is said, to the failure to standardise.

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