Romansh has about 70,000 speakers in SE Switzerland and was recognized in that country in 1937 as a national language, co-official with German, French, and Italian.
Rhaeto-Romanic
is generic name for several related dialects of the Romance
group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. They include
Romansh, an official Swiss language; Ladin; and Friulian (See map).
All of these languages developed from the Latin language.