What language is this?

unkel

Picture was taken on the top of an Alpine pass in Northern Italy

It's clearly a romanic language, but I'm certain it is not Italian / Spanish / French / Portuguese. It might be Romanian but the location of the car (near Switzerland) makes me think it is Romansh

psychward

google translator seems to think it's either Indonesian or French depending on how much of it is typed in yet refuses to translate it.... so can't help

unkel

psychward wrote: »

google translator seems to think it's either Indonesian or French depending on how much of it is typed in yet refuses to translate it.... so can't help

I think we need someone with a bit more sophistication than google translator

It is neither French nor Indonesian for that matter

psychward

unkel wrote: »

I think we need someone with a bit more sophistication than google translator

It is neither French nor Indonesian for that matter

Hey Google translator isn't so bad if you use it as a dictionary. The problem is it didn't catch or detect a translation for any of the words.

GeeNorm

Googled a few of the words and it seems to be Romansch, one of 4 languages in switz. Never heard of it but seems likely

The Scientician

It could be Lombard or Ladin both spoken in N. Italy.

psychward

If theres no conclusive answer later I will ask an aunt who has lived in Switzerland for the last 30 years.

Jemmaa

I think it could be Rhaeto-Romanic - Romance dialects spoken in parts of southeastern Switzerland and northern Italy and the Tyrol

unkel

Googled "il pionier dal" and all 6 results point to Swiss websites. As Romansh is an official Swiss language, that must be it.

@Jemmaa - I think Rhaeto-Romanic is the same as Romansh or the name of the group of languages that Romansh belongs to (but not the official name)

Jemmaa

unkel wrote: »

Googled "il pionier dal" and all 6 results point to Swiss websites. As Romansh is an official Swiss language, that must be it.

@Jemmaa - I think Rhaeto-Romanic is the same as Romansh or the name of the group of languages that Romansh belongs to (but not the official name)

You're probably right

Romansh is an umbrella term covering a group of closely related dialects spoken in southern Switzerland and all belonging to the Rhaeto-Romance language family. The other members of this language family are spoken in northern Italy. Ladin, to which Romansh is more closely related, is spoken by some 22,550 in the Dolomite mountains of Trentino, South Tyrol and the province of Belluno, and Friulian is spoken by between 550,000 and 595,000 people in northeastern Italy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language


Also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaetian_language

Enkidu

It's Romance, specifically the standard dialect "Rumantsch Grischun", the language can be told from the verbs, the dialect from the first person singular pronoun being Jau. However it has the Puter dialect word "adüna", from the Engadin valley.

It says:
I am thirty years old and still loved,
"Make of Car",
Subaru, the original 4x4.