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Astatine
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« on: September 10, 2020, 01:36:33 PM »

And in their ongoing merger-cum-takeover of the PBD, the Christian Democrats, in a fit of creativity, have decided that they want their new name to be...



The Centre/Le Centre/Die Mitte/Alleanza del Centro

Name proposed, with the final decision to be made by the membership

I mean, come on...

Remains to be seen whether dropping the "Christian" appelation puts off more of their remaining Catholic supporters (nb in the Valais, Jura, rural bits of Lucerne, primitive Switzerland) than it attracts "secular, centrist, urban" voters.
Do you think the Protestant People's Party/EVP could benefit from a CVP/BDP merger?
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Astatine
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« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2021, 06:19:18 AM »

Not politics at all, but linguistic demographics, but it interested me.

From the latest release from the Federal Statistics Office a total of 68% of the population regularly use two or more language. 30% use at least three on a weekly basis.

Overall, one in three people live in a multilingual households (counting Alemannic and German as the same language). The most widely spoken languages at home are Swiss German (57%), French (28%), High German (16%) and Italian (8,8%). English is hot on the tail of Italian, with 7,5% using it as a home language. In total, one in two people, and 76% of the under 25s now use English on a weekly basis.

Waiting unhappily for the day English surpasses Italian Sad

What other "foreign" languages are most spoken after English? Albanian? Arabic? Turkish?

In order - Portuguese, Albanian, Serbo-Croat and Spanish. Turkish is actually losing speakers at the moment, it's an older immigration and mostly integrated these days, so fewer and fewer kids speaking Turkish. I suspect Tigrinya may be on the way to becoming the top non-European language, certainly Eritreans are rapidly on the way to becoming the top non-European migrant group.

Italian being surplanted isn't for tomorrow, but it's future doesn't look so bright I think. Nearly one in two Italian speakers is a foreigner (read, an Italian) and mostly living outside of Ticino - so will either probably return to Italy someday, or if they don't, have children who prefer French/German. Whereas, with English, well most English speakers are Swiss nationals already - not US/UK immigrants; and if, say a French and a German speaker get married, there is a good chance they are going to adopt English as a home language (English is actually already ahead of Italian among people aged under 45). So it's going to keep on progressing.
How does the future look for Romansh? IIRC, just about 50'000 people still speak it, right?
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