• television in Germany, will require subtitles. Although Swiss German is the native language in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, Swiss school students...
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    national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian, and Romansh. German, French, and Italian maintain equal status as official languages at the...
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  • Swiss Standard German (SSG; German: Schweizer Standarddeutsch), or Swiss High German (German: Schweizer Hochdeutsch or Schweizerhochdeutsch), referred...
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    part of the Swiss Alps). The variety of the German language spoken in Switzerland is called Swiss German which refers to any of the Alemannic dialects...
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  • today uses the term German-Swiss Sign Language or Swiss-German Sign Language. Wittmann (1991) suspects that Swiss-German Sign Language may be part of the...
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    Confederation (Switzerland) regardless of ethno-cultural background or people of self-identified Swiss ancestry. The number of Swiss nationals has grown...
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    German (German: Deutsch, pronounced [dɔʏtʃ] ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe...
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    Ticino. Languages of Switzerland Italian immigration to Switzerland Italy–Switzerland relations Swiss French Swiss German Swiss Standard German Ticinese...
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    the Italian exclave of Campione d'Italia which is surrounded by Swiss territory. The Swiss National Bank (SNB) issues banknotes and the federal mint Swissmint...
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  • High German (SHG), less precisely Standard German or High German (German: Standardhochdeutsch, Standarddeutsch, Hochdeutsch or, in Switzerland, Schriftdeutsch)...
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    term "Swiss German", which refers to all Alemannic dialects of Switzerland as opposed to Swiss variant of Standard German, the literary language of diglossic...
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  • Switzerland Swiss in Germany, see Swiss_abroad#Germany the Swiss German language German-speaking Swiss people, see German-speaking Switzerland German...
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    Alemannic language, is recognised here as: Alsatian, a dialect spoken in the eastern France region; Swiss German, mainly spoken in Switzerland; swg – Swabian...
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    of Alemannic German and is often considered to be part of the German language, even though mutual intelligibility with Standard German and other non-Alemannic...
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    France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Alps...
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    Rhaeto-Romance language spoken predominantly in the Swiss canton of the Grisons (Graubünden). Romansh has been recognized as a national language of Switzerland since...
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  • German Swiss usually refers to either a single, a group of, or all Swiss citizens with origins from the German-speaking Switzerland. German Swiss may...
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    The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (German: Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft; French: Société suisse de radiodiffusion et télévision; Italian:...
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    national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian and Romansh. In 2017, permanent residents who spoke German (mostly Swiss German dialects)...
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    and ⟨eû⟩ [øː]. Demographics of Switzerland Linguistic geography of Switzerland Swiss German Swiss Italian "Languages". Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved...
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  • The High German languages (German: hochdeutsche Mundarten, i.e. High German dialects), or simply High German (Hochdeutsch) – not to be confused with Standard...
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    Baldauf The language plays a central role in the misunderstanding. The Swiss German is more than just a dialect for most German-speaking Swiss, it is the...
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    The two share a border and a language (German is one of Switzerland's four official languages). More than 44,000 Germans commute across the border every...
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    Dielsdorf Akin to all Swiss German dialects, it is essentially a spoken language, whereas the written language is standard German. Likewise, there is no...
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    school. Impetus to create a German-language school snowballed in 1966 when a German community suggested collaborating with the Swiss. The 1967 Hong Kong riots...
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    part of Grisons. In Swiss German, French-speaking Switzerland is known as Welschland or Welschschweiz, and the French-speaking Swiss as Welsche, using the...
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    Walser German (German: Walserdeutsch) and Walliser German (Walliserdeutsch, locally Wallisertiitsch) are a group of Highest Alemannic dialects spoken in...
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  • Die Südostschweiz (category German-language newspapers published in Switzerland)
    Südostschweiz (Southeastern Switzerland) is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper, published by Südostschweiz Mediengruppe in Chur, Graubünden. The...
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    Low German is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in...
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    of the Pennsylvania German autonym “deitsch”, which in the Pennsylvania German language refers to the Pennsylvania Dutch or Germans in general., though...
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