概要
"I would like to start by telling you a bit about the area in which these people, the Tamit Zadra, live. Inhabitants of a small group of remote villages high in the mountains of eastern Switzerland, the language contains borrowings from the German and Italian languages of their neighbors, but most of these come from the past century or two, because before that, they preferred to shun outside contact. The language itself is descended from a very old family of languages, all of whose other members were assimilated over the years through the contact they had with the large Indo-European languages of the area. As such, the language has no cognates with any of the well known languages of central Europe except through the recent borrowings. In addition, though not exceptional among world languages, its grammatical and phonological structures are quite dissimilar from those of nearby languages."(ホームページより)
