Languages of Switzerland - Immigrant Languages

Immigrant Languages

The immigrant language with the largest number of native speakers is Serbo-Croatian, with 103,000 speakers (1.4%) in 2000, followed by Albanian with 95,000 (1.3%), Portuguese with 90,000 (1.2%), Spanish with 78,000 (1.1%), English with 73,000 (1.0%), Turkish with 14,000 (0.2%), Dutch with 12,000 (0.2%), Russian with 9,000 (0.1%), Chinese with 8,300 (0.1%), Thai with 7,600 (0.1%), Kurdish with 7,500 (0.1%), and Macedonian with 6,400 (0.1%). Speakers of all other non-official languages totaled 173,000. Altogether, roughly 10 percent of the population has a native language other than the four official languages.

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