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Romandy (French: Romandie or Suisse romande; Arpitan: Romandia) [note 1] is the French-speaking historical and cultural region of Switzerland.In 2020, about 2 million people, or 22.8% of the Swiss population, lived in Romandy. [1]
Swiss French (French: français de Suisse or suisse romand) is the variety of French spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy. French is one of the four official languages of Switzerland, the others being German, Italian, and Romansch. In 2020 around 2 million people, or 22.8% of the population, in Switzerland spoke ...
Geneva is the main media center for French-speaking Switzerland. It is the headquarters for the numerous French language radio and television networks of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, known collectively as Radio Télévision Suisse. While both networks cover the whole Romandy, special programs related to Geneva are sometimes broadcast on ...
It is one of the NUTS-2 regions of Switzerland. The name includes a word from each of the two official languages spoken in this region: espace (French) here means "area", and Mittelland is the German name of the Swiss Central Plateau. This same mixed name is used in both official French- and German-language texts.
Italian language in Switzerland. Italian Switzerland (Italian: Svizzera italiana, Romansh: Svizra taliana, French: Suisse italienne, German: italienische Schweiz) is the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, which includes the canton of Ticino and the southern part of Grisons.
The Republic and Canton of Jura (officially in French: République et Canton du Jura [4]), less formally the Canton of Jura or Canton Jura (/ ˈ (d) ʒ ʊər ə / JOOR-ə, ZHOOR-ə; French: ⓘ), [needs Arpitan IPA] is the newest (founded in 1979) of the 26 Swiss cantons, located in the northwestern part of Switzerland.
About 1.9% of the workforce coming into Lausanne are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.1% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. [62] Of the working population, 40.9% used public transportation to get to work, and 35.1% used a private car. [ 48 ]
Conversely, in the French-speaking regions, local Franco-Provençal dialects have almost disappeared (only 6.3% of the population of Valais, 3.9% of Fribourg, and 3.1% of Jura still spoke dialects at the end of the 20th century), while in the Italian-speaking regions, the use of Lombard dialects is mostly limited to family settings and casual ...