• • • The four national languages of are,,. All but Romansh maintain equal status as official languages at the national level within the Federal Administration of the. In some situations, is used, particularly as a single language to denote the country. In 2017, the population of Switzerland was 62.6% native speakers of German (58.5% speak and/or 11.1% at home); 22.9% French (mostly, but including some ); 8.2% Italian (mostly, but including dialects); and 0.5% Romansh. The German region ( Deutschschweiz) is roughly in the east, north and center; the French part ( la Romandie) in the west and the Italian area ( Svizzera italiana) in the south.

There remains a small Romansh-speaking native population in in the east. 3 patch club. The cantons of, and are officially bilingual; the is officially trilingual. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] The main languages of Swiss residents from 1950 to 2015, in percentages, were as follows: Year German French Italian Romansh Other 2015 63.0 22.7 8.4 0.6 5.3 2000 63.7 20.4 6.5 0.5 9.0 1990 63.6 19.2 7.6 0.6 8.9 1980 65.0 18.4 9.8 0.8 6.0 1970 64.9 18.1 11.9 0.8 4.3 1960 69.4 18.9 9.5 0.9 1.4 1950 72.1 20.3 5.9 1.0 0.7 In 2012, for the first time, respondents could indicate more than one language, causing the percentages to exceed 100%. National languages and linguistic regions [ ] German [ ]. A map showing the Italian-speaking areas of Switzerland: darker areas indicate where Italian is most prominent Italian Switzerland (: Svizzera italiana,: Svizra taliana,: Suisse italienne,: italienische Schweiz) is the Italian-speaking part of, which includes the canton of. Italian is also spoken in the Valley (leading to the, on the southern part of the watershed) in Valais. The linguistic region covers an area approximately 3,500 km² and has a total population of around 350,000 inhabitants, with the number of Italophones residing in Switzerland being 545,274 (about 7% of the Swiss population).

The proportion of Italian-speaking inhabitants had been decreasing since the 1970s, after reaching a high of 12% of the population during the same decade. This was entirely because of the reduced number of immigrants from Italy to Switzerland, but gained again during the last decade. The Federal Palace of Switzerland, with the Latin inscription Curia Confoederationis Helveticae.

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To avoid having to translate the in the four national languages, is used on the ( or Confoederatio Helvetica) and on ( Helvetia). The for Switzerland on the internet is, the abbreviation of the Latin name, Confoederatio Helvetica (Swiss Confederation); similarly, the for Swiss automobiles is 'CH'.

Shapochka shlem lisichka s opisaniem. The bears the inscription Curia Confoederationis Helveticae. [ ] To have a unique name across the country (without favoring German or English), several Swiss foundations and associations have Latin names, such as, Pro Infirmis,,,, Pro Senectute,, etc. [ ] See also [ ] • • •, referring to the asserted difference in mentality between German Swiss and the French-speaking Romands • • Notes [ ].