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Languages of Switzerland
Languages spoken in Switzerland.
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Language↕ | 2000Mother tongue↕ | 2015Main language↕ | 2018Main language↕ | 2020Main language↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number |
| German | 4,639,762 | 63.7 | 4,424,150 | 64 |
| French | 1,484,411 | 20.4 | 1,567,197 | 22.7 |
| Italian | 470,961 | 6.5 | 581,381 | 8.4 |
| Romansh | 35,072 | 0.5 | 40,299 | 0.6 |
| English | 73,422 | 1 | 374,642 | 5.4 |
| Portuguese | 89,527 | 1.2 | 256,560 | 3.7 |
| Albanian | 94,937 | 1.3 | 188,125 | 2.7 |
| Serbo-Croatian | 103,350 | 1.4 | 161,882 | 2.3 |
| Spanish | 76,750 | 1.1 | 159,859 | 2.3 |
| Turkish | 44,523 | 0.6 | 78,015 | 1.1 |
| Arabic | 14,345 | 0.2 | 36,857 | 0.5 |
| Russian | 8,570 | 0.1 | 32,244 | 0.5 |
| Tamil | 21,816 | 0.3 | 31,145 | 0.5 |
| Polish | 5,206 | 0.1 | 24,881 | 0.4 |
| Dutch | 11,840 | 0.2 | 22,357 | 0.3 |
| Hungarian | 6,194 | 0.1 | 20,597 | 0.3 |
| Kurdish | 7,531 | 0.1 | 19,401 | 0.3 |
| Thai | 7,569 | 0.1 | 14,528 | 0.2 |
| Greek | 4,792 | 0.1 | 13,763 | 0.2 |
| Czech | 5,444 | 0.1 | 13,433 | 0.2 |
| Romanian | 3,397 | 0 | 12,738 | 0.2 |
| Chinese | 8,279 | 0.1 | 12,324 | 0.2 |
| Slovak | 2,018 | 0 | 12,072 | 0.2 |
| Persian | 3,467 | 0 | 11,108 | 0.2 |
| Macedonian | 6,415 | 0.1 | 10,698 | 0.2 |
| Swedish | 5,560 | 0.1 | 8,771 | 0.1 |
| Vietnamese | 4,226 | 0.1 | 6,720 | 0.1 |
| Tagalog | 3,019 | 0 | 6,275 | 0.1 |
| Japanese | 4,100 | 0.1 | 6,001 | 0.1 |
| Danish | 2,739 | 0 | 5,272 | 0.1 |
| Tibetan | 1,108 | 0 | 5,219 | 0.1 |
| Bulgarian | 1,579 | 0 | 4,583 | 0.1 |
| Finnish | 2,628 | 0 | 4,299 | 0.1 |
| Hindi-Urdu | 1,407 | 0 | 3,846 | 0.1 |
| Slovene | 1,601 | 0 | 3,690 | 0.1 |
| Somali | 2,661 | 0 | 3,607 | 0.1 |
| Aramaic | 1,333 | 0 | 2,465 | 0 |
| Hebrew | 1,176 | 0 | 2,159 | 0 |
| Norwegian | 1,361 | 0 | 2,108 | 0 |
| Korean | 1,202 | 0 | 1,816 | 0 |
| Other languages | 77,751 | 1.1 |
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