The ''Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun'' (abbreviation DRG) is the biggest
dictionary of the
Romansh language
Romansh (; sometimes also spelled Romansch and Rumantsch; Sursilvan: ; Vallader, Surmiran, and Rumantsch Grischun: ; Putèr: ; Sutsilvan: , , ; Jauer: ) is a Gallo-Romance language spoken predominantly in the Swiss canton of the Gr ...
.
Founded in 1904 by the
Indo-Europeanist
Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical pro ...
Robert von Planta and the
Societad Retorumantscha, which still bears the responsibility for editing it. It comprises the Romansh
dialect
The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of linguistic phenomena:
One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a ...
s and
idioms spoken in the Swiss canton of
Graubünden.
The term ''Rumantsch Grischun'' means "the Romansh language spoken in Graubünden" and should not be confused with the standard written language (
Dachsprache
In sociolinguistics, an abstand language is a language variety or cluster of varieties with significant linguistic distance from all others, while an ausbau language is a standard variety, possibly with related dependent varieties. Heinz Kloss ...
) created in the 20th century with the name of
Rumantsch Grischun
Romansh (; sometimes also spelled Romansch and Rumantsch; Sursilvan: ; Vallader, Surmiran, and Rumantsch Grischun: ; Putèr: ; Sutsilvan: , , ; Jauer: ) is a Gallo-Romance language spoken predominantly in the Swiss canton of the ...
.
The first 13 volumes of the Romansh dictionary became available online in December 2018. The digitalization of the dictionary was done by hand-typing in
Nanjing
Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. T ...
, China, due to the expensive cost in Europe.
Bibliography
* ''Annalas da la Societad Retorumantscha,'' 1886 ff.
References
External links
Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischunat the
Lexicon Istoric Retic
Dictionaries by language
Romansh language
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