LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM 1. Name of requester: Philip Newton 2. E-mail address of requester: philip.newton at pobox.com 3. Record Requested: Type: variant Subtag: jauer Description: Jauer dialect of Romansh Prefix: rm Comments: The spoken dialect of the Val Müstair, which has no written standard. 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: The spoken dialect of the Val Müstair in Graubünden, Switzerland. 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article): 6. Any other relevant information: The dialect of the Val Müstair does not have a standardised written form. Even though the dialects of Romansh spoken there exhibits some differences from the dialect of the Lower Engadine, it was the Vallader written standard, derived from (sub)dialects of the Lower Engadine, that was traditionally used in the Val Müstair, and that was taught in schools there. Recently, the Rumantsch Grischun supraregional standard has started to be used in schools in Val Müstair. They were among the first school districts to make use of Rumantsch Grischun in their instruction; perhaps because the inhabitants were already accustomed to making use of a written standard that did not correspond as well to their spoken dialects. The subtag "jauer" is perhaps most useful to represent spoken Jauer, since Jauer is not often written. However, it may also represent written Jauer (which typically uses an _ad hoc_ orthography: every speaker writes as he thinks fit). Texts written by Jauer speakers in a written standard are better tagged with the appropriate subtags, such as rm-vallader for the Vallader standard traditionally used in the Val Müstair or rm-rumgr for the Rumantsch Grischun supraregional written standard.