Romansch is the common name for the
Raeto-Romanic subcategory of the
Romance Languages. Spoken in the Triuli region of Italy and in some parts of the
Swiss Alps, there are three dialects of Raeto-Romanic.
The three dialects of Romansch are spoken by a total of about 450,000 people (That's fewer than the population of Wyoming.) The dialects are not exactly interchangeable, and not quite the same, but are thrown together more for geographical convenience than any uniting linguistic factor (other than that they are random Romance languages spoken by too few people to be considered different from each other.)
Romansch is, in fact, a corruption of Latin. It is thought that the cultures (read: isolated villages) that speak Romansch were the last to stop speaking Latin. A Swiss friend of mine told me that it is generally considered "New Latin."
How to count to ten in Romansch:
ONE: in, ina
TWO: dus
THREE: trais
FOUR: quatter
FIVE: tschintg
SIX: sis
SEVEN: set
EIGHT: otg
NINE: nov
TEN: diesch
Please don't ask me how to pronounce them or what dialect they are. In the last week or so, Raeto-Romance languages have become a small hobby, but it's quite difficult to find concrete information about it other than encyclopedia entries.