Account of the Romansh Language - In a Letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S. by Esq. F. R. S. Joseph Planta
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[Footnote K: In some communities there are fourteen jurors besides the Landamman.] [Footnote L: Serv. in Æneid. lib. viii. 65. lib. x. 202. Sprech. Pall. Rhæt p. 9. Siml. Rep. Helv. p. 281. ed. 1735.] [Footnote M: Liv. lib. v. c. 33.] [Footnote N: Sprech. p. 214. Mer. l. c.] [Footnote O: _En Code Ino_, perhaps the vulgar Roman phrase expressing _In Capite Oeni_. There are other etymologies, but all equally uncertain.] [Footnote P: Sprech. p. 10.] [Footnote Q: _Lavin_ (Lavinium), _Sus_ (Susa), _Zernetz_ (Cerneto), _Ardetz_ (Ardea), &c.] [Footnote R: Sprech. p. 10.] [Footnote S: A parallel instance of the formation of a language by Roman colonies is the idiom of Moldavia; which, according to Prince Cantemir's account of that country, has still many traces of its Latin origin, and which, though engrafted upon the Dacian, and since upon the Sclavonian dialects of the Celtic, may still be considered as a sister language to that I am, here treating of.] [Footnote T: Videre Rhaeti bella _sub_ Alpibus |
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