Sutsilvan dialects (Romansh)

Sutselvisch ( Romansh Sutsilvan ) is one of the five Romansh written idioms in Switzerland and is in Domleschg, used at the Heinz Berg, in Shams and Ferreratal in the canton of Grisons. School language one finds the Sutselvische only in primary school in Donat on Schamserberg. The Sutsilvan attributed dialects are also spoken in the region Imboden ( Romansh Plaun ), as a written language used there, however, the Sursilvan.

Getting Scripture

1601 published the village teacher at Castle Fuerstenau, Daniel Bonifazi ( 1574-1639 ), the first book written in the language sutselvischer: a catechism, which was primarily intended for school use.

Dialect

In Sutsilvan there is a cover of orthography, which summarizes several sub- dialects of Sutsilvan. Thus one speaks the word for tree, plant ' Shams in planta, in Domleschg plaunta and at the Heinz mountain plönta, but writes uniformly planta.

The Sutselvische is the most endangered dialect group of Romansh. Only in Shams, and there especially on Schamserberg, the language nor the youngest generation is passed. The Heinz Berger dialect is close to extinction, as it only single older people dominate in Prec and possibly Sarn; the Domleschger Romance is still spoken in everyday life of several dozen people, but rarely by people under 30 years.

Sutselvisch heard with Surmeirisch to the central Grisons dialects of Romansh.

Samples

At the end of a text in Sutselvisch, RG and German.