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: vallader Description: Vallader idiom of Romansh Prefix: rm Comments: Vallader is one of the five traditional written standards or "idioms" of the Romansh language. 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: The Vallader written standard of the Romansh language, especially as used to represent the dialects of the Lower Engadine and as used traditionally as the written standard in the Val Müstair; or the spoken dialects of the Lower Engadine typically represented in writing by this standard. 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article): -- Jachen Curdin Arquint, Vierv ladin, Grammatica elementara dal rumantsch d’Engiadina bassa, Lia Rumantscha 1964. -- Gian Paul Ganzoni, Grammatica Ladina, Grammatica sistematica dal rumantsch d’Engiadina Bassa per scolars e creschütsd da lingua rumantscha e francesa, Uniun dals Grischs e Lia Rumantscha, 1983. -- Dicziunari – Wörterbuch vallader – tudais-ch /tudais-ch – vallader, Lehrmittelverlag des Kantons Graubünden, Chur 2003. 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. Texts written in the Vallader standard, whether by a Lower Engadine writer or one from the Val Müstair, can be tagged with rm-vallader. In the opinion of the submitter, the spoken varieties of the Lower Engadine can also appropriately be tagged rm-vallder; however, spoken varieties of the Val Müstair are better tagged rm-jauer (q.v.).