Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps.
The largest and most eastern of the Swiss cantons.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAccording to Mathias Kundert, while there was never a plan to Germanize the Romansh areas of Grisons, many German-speaking groups wished that the entire canton would become German-speaking. Source: Internet
Additionally, this was supposed to discredit the efforts of Italian nationalists to claim Romansh as a dialect of Italian and establish a claim to parts of Grisons. Source: Internet
As late as 1984, the Canton of Grisons was ordered not to make entries into its corporate registry in Romansh. Source: Internet
Coray (2008). p. 139–140 In 1984, the assembly of delegates of the head organization Lia Rumantscha decided to use the new standard language when addressing all Romansh-speaking areas of the Grisons. Source: Internet
Romansh during the 19th and 20th century When Grisons became part of Switzerland in 1803, it had a population of roughly 73,000, of whom around 36,600 were Romansh speakers—many of them monolingual—living mostly within the Romansh-speaking valleys. Source: Internet
Since very little is known about the Celtic language once spoken in Grisons, and almost nothing about Raetic, words or placenames thought to come from them are usually simply referred to as "pre-Roman". Source: Internet