Swiss language

  • 1Swiss identity card — The front and reverse of a Swiss identity card The present Swiss identity card dates to July 1994. It is in the form of a plastic photocard. The Swiss identity card was blue and first introduced in 1955 when the European travel was starting to be …

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  • 2Language death — In linguistics, language death (also language extinction or linguistic extinction, and rarely linguicide or glottophagy[1]) is a process that affects speech communities where the level of linguistic competence that speakers possess of a given… …

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  • 3swiss — n. 1. Swiss language, language of Switzerland. 2. [sing. and pl.] Switzer, inhabitant of Switzerland …

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  • 4Swiss Standard German — is one out of four official languages in Switzerland, besides Romansh, French and Italian. It is a variety of Standard German, used in the German speaking part of Switzerland, mainly written, rather rarely spoken.Spoken Swiss Standard German must …

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  • 5Swiss Italian — is the name given to the idiom used for official communication and in writing in the Swiss canton of Ticino and in the southern part of Graubünden, which most resembles the Standard Italian language. Official statusAlthough Italian is an official …

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  • 6Swiss Made — is a label used to indicate that a product was made in Switzerland. OverviewThe wording was formally adopted in the late 19th century [http://www.swissinfo.org/fre/culture/detail/Aux origines du Swiss made horloger.html?siteSect=201 sid=7998036… …

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  • 7Swiss mercenaries — were soldiers notable for their service in foreign armies, especially the armies of the Kings of France, throughout the Early Modern period of European history, from the Later Middle Ages into the Age of the European Enlightenment. Their service… …

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  • 8Language secessionism — or linguistic secessionism is an attitude consisting in separating a language variety from the language to which it normally belongs, in order to make this variety considered as a distinct language. This phenomenon was first analyzed by Catalan… …

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  • 9Swiss German — Infobox Language name=Swiss German nativename=Schwyzerdütsch familycolor=Indo European pronunciation= [ʃvitsəɾd̥ytʃ] states=Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria (Vorarlberg) region=Europe speakers=4,500,000 fam2=Germanic fam3=West Germanic… …

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  • 10Swiss literature — There is no such thing as a Swiss national vernacular literature, properly speaking. But there are four branches which make up a literature of Switzerland, according to the language in which the works are composed. As the Confederation, from its… …

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