Alpine novels

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All Romansh-speaking members of minority peoples living in the Alps are referred to as Alpine Romans , especially Rhaeto-Romans in Switzerland and Friulians and Ladins in Italy.

These peoples are of Romanic origin, but not Italian, even if they were exposed to strong pressure to Italianize in the first half of the 20th century . Whether their idioms are actually related to each other and dialects of a common Rhaeto-Romanic language is the subject of Questione Ladina .

Most of the Alpine inhabitants Romanized in antiquity and the last citizens of the defunct Western Roman Empire were evacuated to Italy in 488 by Odoacer and Hunulf and Italianized there. The few novels that remained in protected Alpine valleys were isolated from Rome and came under Swiss-German influence by 1512 at the latest.