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Romansh, which sounds closer to northern-Italian dialects than to the modern language spoken in Florence or Rome, is a battered remnant of spoken Late Latin which escaped standardization mostly by being tucked away in the Alps.
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Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
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“Late Latin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Late%20Latin. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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