Tuachin

The Tuatschin pink in the far west of the canton of Graubünden

The Tuatschin (stress on the final syllable) describes the Rhaeto-Romanic dialect within the Sursylvanian idiom, which is spoken in the upper Cadi in the canton of Graubünden in the area around the village of Tujetsch and in Val Medel .

particularities

The Tuachin has retained some of the peculiarities of the old Sursilvan before this idiom developed further in the early modern period and also separated it from the idioms of the Central League , the Sutsilvan , the Surmiran and the Bargunegner . This led to the fact that the Tuatschin, although geographically the most remote, has a more direct connection to the other Rhaeto-Romanic idioms than the Sursilvan.

Diphthongization

The Tuatschin even connects the particularly distinctive emphasis on the diphthongs with the Engadine Romance idioms Vallader and Jauer (while the Puter has a similar diphthong hardening or monophthongization as the Sursilvan).

Others

Another differentiation to the Sursilvan is the continuous pull of the Tuatschin towards palatalization .

Written language

The Tuatschin is colloquial and everyday language. The written language on its territory, however, is (high) Sursilvan.

Web links

Tarcisi Hendry website on Tuatschin ; Pages in German (with a collection of articles), (last) accessed on May 12, 2016.
P. Ambros Widmer: Dialect da Tujetsch. February 1, 2006 (PDF; 142 kB) (language features; 2 pages), accessed on May 12, 2016.
Tedlar il dialect tuatschin registraziun 1926 da Baseli Berther, Dieni (1887–1970), pur ed anteriur president communal (mp3; 3:50 min) (historical audio sample), accessed on May 12, 2016. In: Valär, Rico (ed. ): Filistuccas e fafanoias da temp vegl. Registraziuns dialectalas rumantschas / Nonsense and fables from ancient times. Rhaeto-Romanic dialect recordings by Andrea Scorta, 1926 (= Romanica Raetica. Volume 21). Societad Retorumantscha, Cuira 2013, ISBN 978-3-908037-05-7 (book, CD and booklet with phonetic transcriptions. From the phonogram archive of the University of Zurich; Institut dal Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun (DRG)).
Vocabulary collection with audio samples (project under construction), accessed on May 12, 2016.
P. Ambros Widmer: On the dialect of Selva / Tschamut. ( PDF; 20.3 MB ) ( typescript ; bibliographies ; on voice recordings, their problems and phonetic transcription ; 43 pages), accessed on May 12, 2016; appeared in the Bündner monthly newspaper . Journal of Graubünden history, local history and folklore. Vol. 119, 1987, No. 5/6, OCLC 887590346 , pp. 119-160.