Official Languages

Official status is a legal designation. It requires a constitution, language act or charter, which this platform has not yet loaded — speaker numbers cannot establish it.

Languages spoken here

Bulgarian (secondary) · Czech (secondary) · Czech (Moravian) (secondary) · Danish (secondary) · Danish (Jutlandic) (secondary) · Dutch (secondary) · Dutch (Brabantian) (secondary) · French (secondary) · French (Quebec) (secondary) · German (secondary) · Gheg Albanian (secondary) · Hungarian (secondary) · Italian (secondary) · Italian (Romanesco) (secondary) · Japanese (secondary) · Kabuverdianu (secondary) · Levantine Arabic (secondary) · Lombard (secondary) · Macedonian (secondary) · Modern Greek (secondary) · Modern Greek (biblical terms) (secondary) · Moroccan Arabic (secondary) · Northern Kurdish (secondary) · Polish (secondary) · Polish (Goralian) (secondary) · Portuguese (secondary) · Portuguese (Brazilian) (secondary) · Romanian (secondary) · Romanian (Moldovan) (secondary) · Romansh (secondary) · Russian (secondary) · Russian (Pre-1918) (secondary) · Slovak (secondary) · Slovak (Eastern) (secondary) · Slovenian (secondary) · Somali (secondary) · Spanish (secondary) · Swedish (secondary) · Swiss-German Sign Language (secondary) · Tamil (secondary) · Thai (secondary) · Tigrinya (secondary) · Turkish (secondary) · Ukrainian (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Switzerland

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
German Swiss	4616000	German, Swiss	Christianity
Franco-Swiss	1816000	French	Christianity
Lombard	320000	Lombard	Christianity
Italian	300000	Italian	Christianity
German	259000	German, Standard	Christianity
Portuguese	218000	Portuguese	Christianity
Albanian	113000	Albanian, Gheg	Islam
Spaniard	89000	Spanish	Christianity
South Asian, general	79000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Turk	70000	Turkish	Islam
Macedonian	70000	Macedonian	Christianity
Ukrainian	66000	Ukrainian	Christianity
Serb	64000	Serbian	Christianity
Austrian, Bavarian	46000	Bavarian	Christianity
Rhaeto-Romansch, Engadine	45000	Romansh	Christianity
British	44000	English	Christianity
Polish	43000	Polish	Christianity
Tigray, Tigrinya	42000	Tigrigna	Christianity
Bosniak	30000	Bosnian	Islam
Croat	29000	Croatian	Christianity
Hungarian	26000	Hungarian	Christianity
Romani, Sinte	26000	Romani, Sinte	Christianity
Romani, Swiss	25000	German, Swiss	Christianity
Romanian	24000	Romanian	Christianity
Arab, Syrian	24000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Brazilian, general	23000	Portuguese	Christianity
Han Chinese, Mandarin	21000	Chinese, Mandarin	Non-Religious
Yeniche	20000	Yeniche	Christianity
Americans, U.S.	20000	English	Christianity
Jewish, Swiss	19000	German, Swiss	Judaism
Slovak	19000	Slovak	Christianity
Walser	19000	Walser	Christianity
Afghan, general	19000	Dari	Islam
Filipino, Tagalog	18000	Tagalog	Christianity
Russian	17000	Russian	Christianity
Greek	17000	Greek	Christianity
Arab, Lebanese general	17000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Flemish	15000	West Flemish	Christianity
Bulgarian	14000	Bulgarian	Christianity
Dutch	14000	Dutch	Non-Religious
Czech	11000	Czech	Non-Religious
Slovene	9100	Slovene	Christianity
Kurd, Kurmanji	9000	Kurdish, Northern	Islam
Thai	9000	Thai	Buddhism
Franco-Provencal	8800	Arpitan	Christianity
Tamil (Hindu traditions)	8300	Tamil	Hinduism
Arab, Moroccan	8300	Arabic, Moroccan	Islam
Tibetan, Central	8200	Tibetan, Central	Buddhism
Arab, Tunisian	8200	Arabic, Tunisian	Islam
Somali	8000	Somali	Islam

Languages

53 languages recorded here.

Albanian, Gheg

Arabic, Levantine

Arabic, Moroccan

Arabic, Tunisian

Arpitan

Bavarian

Bosnian

Bulgarian

Chinese, Mandarin

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dari

Dutch

English

French

German, Standard

German, Swiss

Greek

Hungarian

Italian

Japanese

Kabuverdianu

Kurdish, Northern

Lombard

Macedonian

Montenegrin

Pashto, Southern

Persian, Iranian

Polish

Portuguese

Romani, Sinte

Romanian

Romansh

Russian

Serbian

Sinhala

Slovak

Slovene

Somali

Spanish

Swedish

Swiss-German Sign Language

Tagalog

Tamil

Thai

Tibetan, Central

Tigrigna

Turkish

Ukrainian

Walser

West Flemish

Yeniche

All catalogue fields

150 fields recorded

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harvest_securitylevel: 0
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harvest_provincesdisplayable: Y
harvest_adm1label: Provinces
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harvest_biblesocietyurl: http://www.die-bibel.ch/startseite/
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harvest_areasquarekilometers: 41293
harvest_populationpersquaremile: 458
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harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00