Grisons

According 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.

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.

As late as 1984, the Canton of Grisons was ordered not to make entries into its corporate registry in Romansh.

But by the end of the century, the so-called "Central-Grisons language bridge" began to disappear.

Common words of Romansh origin in Grisons-German include Schaffa (derived from Romansh scaffa 'cupboard'), Spus/Spüslig 'bridegroom' and Spus 'bride', Banitsch 'cart used for moving dung', and Pon 'container made of wood'.

Coray (2008). p. 183 The government of Grisons then took steps to strengthen the role of Rumantsch Grischun as an official language.

In addition, some words, neuter in most dialects of German, are masculine in Grisons-German.

One cause was the admission of Grisons as a Swiss canton, which brought Romansh-speakers into more frequent contact with German-speakers.

Since 2004, the hip-hop group Liricas Analas has become known even outside of Grisons through their Romansh songs.

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".

The two metre-gauge track crossings are located at the border town of Tirano (enters Switzerland's Canton Graubünden/Grisons) and Domodossola (enters Switzerland's Locarno).

The Walser migration, going on between the 12th and 13th centuries, spread upper Wallis varieties towards the east and south, into Grisons and even further to western Austria and northern Italy.