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The four national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian, and Romansh. [4] German, French, and Italian maintain equal status as official languages at the national level within the federal administration of the Swiss Confederation, while Romansh is used in dealings with people who speak it. [5]
This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. ... Swiss German: 5,000,000 [33] 28 ... Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino) 320,000 [84] few ...
14 languages. العربية ... Swiss people of Galician descent (8 P) Pages in category "Swiss people of Spanish descent"
Tok Pisin (now also a Creole language) (in Papua New Guinea) Fijian Creole (in Fiji) Pijin (now also a Creole language) (in Solomon Islands) Bislama (in Vanuatu) Shelta, from the Irish Traveller community in Ireland. American Irish-Traveller's Cant, from the Irish Traveller American community in the United States
Ecuador defines Spanish as its official language, but Spanish, Quechua and Shuar – as official languages of intercultural relations in the Article 2 of the 2008 Constitution. [145] Falkland Islands, English is the official & dominant language. Spanish is spoken by a minority of the population who comes from Chile and Argentina.
The French-speaking Swiss , traditionally speaking Franco-Provençal dialects (as well as the Franc-Comtois dialect of the Oïl languages in parts of Jura), today largely assimilated to the standard French language (Swiss French), amalgamated from the Gallo-Roman population and Burgundians (the historical Upper Burgundy).
The Ticinese dialect is the set of dialects, belonging to the Alpine and Western branch of the Lombard language, [3] spoken in the northern part of the Canton of Ticino [4] (Sopraceneri); the dialects of the region can generally vary from valley to valley, often even between single localities, [4] while retaining the mutual intelligibility that is typical of the Lombard linguistic continuum.
Three of the continent's major languages, German, French and Italian, are national languages of Switzerland, along with Romansh, spoken by a small minority. Therefore, Swiss culture is characterized by diversity, which is reflected in a wide range of traditional customs. The 26 cantons also account for the large cultural diversity. [1]