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IOL 2010 Problem #5 Romansh
Given are words of two dialects of the Romansh language and their English translations. Some cells have been left blank:
| Sursilvan | Engadine | |
| tut | tuot | all |
| ura | ura | time |
| uolm | elm | |
| stumi | stomach | |
| dunna | duonna | woman |
| num | nom | name |
| nums | noms | names |
| cuort | short | |
| mund | world | |
| insumma | insomma | finally |
| numer | nomer | number |
| fuorcla | mountain pass | |
| plomba | tooth filling | |
| muossar | to show | |
| buglia | buoglia | mash, pulp |
| discuors | discuors | conversation |
| puolpa | puolpa | dried meat |
| angul | angul | angle |
| fuorma | fuorma | form |
| flur | flur | flower |
| culant | generous |
(a) Fill in the gaps.
(b) what is labour in Sursilvan, lavur or lavuor? And in Engadine?
(c) In Engadine flowers is fluors and parents is genituors. You may think that it is the same in Sursilvan, but in fact the words there are flurs and geniturs. How can this be explained?
(d) Translate into both dialects: elms, angles.
⚠ Romansh belongs to the Rhaeto-Romance group of Romance. It is one of the four national languages of Switzerland, along with German, French and Italian. It is spoken by approx. 35 000 people in the canton of Graubünden.
—Boris Iomdin