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A Very Big Fight Over a Very Small Language

By Simon Akam · The New Yorker · December 2025
A Very Big Fight Over a Very Small Language
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"Romansh, a Swiss language spoken by a tiny fraction of the population, comes in five major versions. Simon Akam reports from Switzerland about the verbal avalanche that ensued when reformers tried to entrench the tongue by standardizing it."

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