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Description
Switzerland has four official languages: (Many Swiss speak more than one language)
- German - 65% of the population (spoken in fifteen cantons)
- French - 18% (spoken officially in six cantons: Fribourg, Vaud, Jura, Valais, Neuchâtel, and Geneva)
- Italian - 10% (spoken in Ticino and parts of Graubünden)
- Romansh - 1% (an old Latin dialect spoken mainly in the mountains of Graubünden)
- Others - 6%
Records are written in the major languages and Latin which was used extensively in early records.[1] [2] [3]
Word List(s)
- German Genealogical Word List
- French Genealogical Word List
- Italian Genealogical Word List
- Swiss-German Genealogical Word List
- Useful Phrases in German - Omniglot]
- Useful Phrases in French - Omniglot]
- Useful Phrases in Italian - Omniglot]
- Useful Phrases in Romansh - Omniglot]
Alphabet and Pronunciation
- German Language Alphabet and Pronunciation - Omniglot
- French Language Alphabet and Pronunciation - Omniglot
- Italian Language Alphabet and Pronunciation - Omniglot
- Romansh Language Alphabet and Pronunciation - Omniglot
Language Aids and Dictionaries
Language Aids
Dictionaries
- Beattie, Susie. Collins German dictionary. Glasgow: HarperCollins Publisher, 2019. Available at: WorldCat.
- Girard, Denis. Cassell's French-English, English-French dictionary. Wiley, New York: Macmillan, 2002. Available at: WorldCat.
- Rèbora, Piero, Francis M Guercio, and Arthur Lawrence Hayward. Cassell's Italian dictionary : Italian-English, English-Italian. New York: Wiley, 2002. Available at: WorldCat.
- Gross, Manfred and Daniel Telli. Romansh-English, English-Romansh : dictionary and phrasebook. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2007. Available at: WorldCat.
Online Dictionaries
- English-German Dictionary - Collins
- English-French Dictionary - Collins
- English-Italian Dictionary - Collins
- English-Romansh Dictionary - Glosbe
Additional Resources
- Languages of Switzerland - Wikipedia
- German language - Wikipedia
- French language - Wikipedia
- Italian language - Wikipedia
- Romansh language - Wikipedia
- 18 interesting facts about Switzerland’s fourth language: Romansh
- Why Are There Four Languages Spoken in Switzerland?
References
- ↑ The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Switzerland,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1984-1998.
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Switzerland," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland#Languages, accessed 8 Apr 2021.
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Languages of Switzerland," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Switzerland, accessed 8 Apr 2021.