Language · Indo-European

Swiss German

Schwiizertüütsch – its own name

Listed in 4 countries.

Speakers (estimate)
c. 8.4 million
sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
Family
Indo-European
Germanic › West Germanic
Script
Latin
Codes
gsw
Glottolog swis1247

Where it is spoken

  • Widely used 2
  • Minority 2

Widely used

  • Switzerland 66% 5.8 million

    The spoken varieties of German; written and official use is in Standard German.

  • Liechtenstein 85% 34 thousand

    Alemannic dialects are the everyday language; Standard German is official.

Minority

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