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Old Nov 4, 2009 | 2:26 pm
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Originally Posted by You want to go where?
It would be interesting to know (albeit not particularly useful) if the Latin Helvetians are actually the same people as the Schweiz/Suisses/Schwyz or whether they are a different group of people altogether, both of whom occupied a portion of what is now Switzerland.
Most Romansch speakers, such as they are (and generally in the southeast of the country), are descendants of Latin Helvetians.
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