Svizra Rumantscha in Bern

31 January 2022

The work  “Svizra Rumantscha” has been hanging in Bern’s House of the Cantons (Haus der Kantone/Maison des cantons) since December 2021. The work shows the names of Switzerland’s approximately 2200 municipalities in the Romansh language.

The artist Donat Caduff has converted the names of some 2200 municipalities into Romansh, although most did not have a translation until now. The artist has presented them for the first time.

The work is a reminder of the importance of this language for the linguistic diversity of Switzerland and its (European) heritage.

The language is one of the oldest living languages on the continent, with origins that go back to the language of the Rhaeans before, during and after the Roman domination in the first centuries of the era.

The travelling exhibition “Rumantsch è…. will be on display at the Town Hall of Chur until the beginning of March. The exhibition presents the Roman language and its five idioms in the four national languages. The exhibition is also online.

(Source and further information: www.rumantsch-e.ch).