Surmiran dialect

Surmiran
surmiran
RegionSurmeir, Albula Valley
Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologsurm1243
IETFrm-surmiran[2]

Surmiran (Surmiran, Vallader, Sutsilvan, Rumantsch Grischun: surmiran; Puter: surmiraun) is a dialect of the Romansh language. It is spoken in Surmeir and in the Albula Valley in the Grisons Canton, in Switzerland.

Some authors have cultivated literature in Surmiran, notably the Capuchin monk Alexander Lozza.

  1. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Romansh". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 2022-10-07. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  2. ^ "Surmiran idiom of Romansh". IANA language subtag registry. 29 June 2010. Retrieved 15 October 2018.