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In a country dominated by German and French, policy makers and other Romansh speakers are grappling with how to preserve their beloved language despite strong criticisms from outsiders and, sometimes, within their own ranks.Schoolteacher Andrea Urech admits that he sometimes feels very lonely in his fight to keep the Romansh language alive. It is spoken by less than one percent of people in Switzerland.
"I have written letters to all the hotels here offering my services to translate documents into Romansh, but I didn't get one single answer," he said.
Depending on who you talk to in eastern Switzerland's Graubuenden canton, where most Romansh speakers are found, there is either fervent support or strong resistance to the language spoken by only 60,000 people across the country.
For every Urech who says "gea" to Romansh, there is someone else who says "na" or has an anecdote about how Romansh was being saved at an economic cost to the region.
The head of Graubuenden canton's tourism and economic bureau, Eugen Arpagaus, has one such example of an employee who quit his job because the town where he lives switched from teaching German to Romansh in schools.
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