The Rhaeto-Romance Languages - John Haiman, Paola Benincà - Google Books

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The Rhaeto-Romance languages have been known as such to the linguistic community since the pioneering studies of Ascoli and Gartner over a century ago. There has never been a community of RR speakers based on a common history or polity and the various…