ABSTRACT
If the Romance languages can be compared to a solar system-with Latin shining in the centre, surrounded by its offspring-then the Rhaeto-Romance (RR) dialects are truly, in D.B.Gregor’s vivid metaphor, among the asteroids. Unlike familiar members of the family such as Spanish, French, and Italian, they are not even visible to the layman’s naked eye, and their discovery is comparatively recent.
