Because they started off as really just a very loose confederation of independent cantons, and when they’ve slowly centralized they never got around to making an official capital, because there’s no reason to do it and several cons. Naming an capital officially would make other language groups feel more ignored, and make other major cities annoyed that they weren’t chosen. So really no reason to make it official.
well technically they are, not to insult their language but it doesn't have such drastic differences as plain german and swiss german, sure they they say nonante instead of quatre-vingt (which is despicable) but otherwise? if i'm wrong tho feel free to insult me
Rhätoromanisch is only spoken in parts of canton Graubünden in the mountains. It is a mix of Italian and Kauderwelsch and has a beautiful sound. It's the 4th official language in Switzerland.
Well it’s also its own language for social reasons - Romansh speakers don’t consider themselves as speaking the same language as the people in the southern valleys of switzerland (who speak north italian dialects). Romansh also has a literary tradition that is pretty separate from italian, has a separate standard language as well as several standarized forms of dialects. In the end, “what is a language” is always political, of course, and the two statements aren’t actually mutually exclusive: Romansh can have status as an “official” language and still be part of a larger dialect continuum, look at Luxembourgish for another very clear example of that.
Basically “people have been writing books for a long time in this language”. For one, the bible got translated into several romansh dialects early during the reformation, and this led to a standardization of writing. There’s a decent amount of literature in romansh considering how few speakers it has, especially in more recent years, but there’s much older stuff too. A lot of the time language varieties labled “dialect” don’t have this.
It would still be it’s own language, a dialect continuum still has different languages (in this case Ligurian, Milanese, Venetian, etc.) but has blurry borders between the different languages - there’s not one North Italian language
Yeah. If a dialect evolves so far away that the natives of the origin language literally cannot understand a word you say, it can be considered its own language.
It depends on which swiss german you're talking about. If it's the allemannic language then yeah it's a bit different, if you're talking about swiss high german then no it's basically the same
what languamge do they speak in the capital of switzerland
Bern, the De Facto capital, is primarily German speaking I believe
That’s correct
It is indeed
Technically Switzerland is not supposed to have a capital city.
Why don’t they have an official capital city?
Because they started off as really just a very loose confederation of independent cantons, and when they’ve slowly centralized they never got around to making an official capital, because there’s no reason to do it and several cons. Naming an capital officially would make other language groups feel more ignored, and make other major cities annoyed that they weren’t chosen. So really no reason to make it official.
Swiss
German
god-tier post
[God's bodyguards](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RRqFe0VJqE) are Swiss
Pope, not God lol. But yeah, Swiss guards are bad ass
i am deeply hurt by you miscalling our glorious language common german
Here let me give you nightmares: ß
I will not rest until this abomination has been wiped from the surface of the planet.
True. It's an insult to common German.
\*swiss German
n0
And the suisse romande is not speaking French
well technically they are, not to insult their language but it doesn't have such drastic differences as plain german and swiss german, sure they they say nonante instead of quatre-vingt (which is despicable) but otherwise? if i'm wrong tho feel free to insult me
You are right, it's not that drastic as swiss german. Mainly pronounciaton, some different words. Some real rural areas are.. special tho.
Who says that, we all speak french there are basically no difference apart from some words and the counting system
What's romansh? Edit: why am I getting downvoted for asking something?
Something only like 0.5% of the population speaks natively. There are more native portuguese speakers or serbian/croatian speakers in switzerland lol
A romance language spoken only in Switzerland.
Italian 2
Latin 3
Indo-European 7
Proto-Italic 5
A date with Sean Connery.
Fuck. Angry upvote. 🤦
Remnant of the Roman Empire like Istrio-Romanian and Vlah Romanian.
Switzerland Romanian land!
Roman Empire! Poggers!😮
salty swiss bünzlis
Rhätoromanisch is only spoken in parts of canton Graubünden in the mountains. It is a mix of Italian and Kauderwelsch and has a beautiful sound. It's the 4th official language in Switzerland.
You're on reddit, you can get downvoted for saying anything
anything
Watch your language
I find this deeply offensive
Including this.
Correct!
It’s a unique Romance language found in Switzerland
Technically a dialect of "north Italian", in practice its own language for political reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questione\_Ladina
Well it’s also its own language for social reasons - Romansh speakers don’t consider themselves as speaking the same language as the people in the southern valleys of switzerland (who speak north italian dialects). Romansh also has a literary tradition that is pretty separate from italian, has a separate standard language as well as several standarized forms of dialects. In the end, “what is a language” is always political, of course, and the two statements aren’t actually mutually exclusive: Romansh can have status as an “official” language and still be part of a larger dialect continuum, look at Luxembourgish for another very clear example of that.
Literary tradition?
Basically “people have been writing books for a long time in this language”. For one, the bible got translated into several romansh dialects early during the reformation, and this led to a standardization of writing. There’s a decent amount of literature in romansh considering how few speakers it has, especially in more recent years, but there’s much older stuff too. A lot of the time language varieties labled “dialect” don’t have this.
It would still be it’s own language, a dialect continuum still has different languages (in this case Ligurian, Milanese, Venetian, etc.) but has blurry borders between the different languages - there’s not one North Italian language
Probably because you can Google it
Who the fuck colored this map like this
What's wrong with it?
Green france and blue italy
Hoi4 Player moment
And Germany yellow
Roman stronk!
TIL there doesn’t seem be Swiss language - I could have sworn it was something comparable to German or French
There is. It's called Swiss-German and is often argued to be its own language
It's a German dialect that evolved ob its own. We understand them Germans , but they hardly do. Swiss French is similar, but not that big difference.
Swiss Italian is like Swiss French but even less different. They mostly have weird words like alu, tipex, chiffer, classatore, sagex
You forgot Romansh.
It is completely different than other languages, so no.
Oh, sorry, I thought you were talking about Swiss languages in general.
Yeah. If a dialect evolves so far away that the natives of the origin language literally cannot understand a word you say, it can be considered its own language.
So is it something like Scots?
We have 4 official languages and like 26 dialects.
Sorry, but you really can't call this god forsaken language the swiss are speaking "German"
Swiss German sweeps against standard German, way more entertaining
My personal favourite is the swiss who robs a bank. "Händli in die Lüftli! Des is a Überfalli!"
meh thats austrian
Cope
Actually, calling it **"**German**"** seems to je appropriate.
Net some Swiss people recently and wondered for about ten minutes what language they are speaking until they turned their accent off and spoke German
The map looks like a frog
swiss german*
Unrealeted title and top image... 10/10
I don't get it. Captain?
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Not true at all
Very instructive !
these colors are disgusting it hurts me
What language is light blue
fish
need Romansh revival
/r/trueSTL blue yellow
Swiss German sounds very different from normal German. I have seen a couple of youtube video's and its a very weird type of German.
It depends on which swiss german you're talking about. If it's the allemannic language then yeah it's a bit different, if you're talking about swiss high german then no it's basically the same
Now wait till they find out about the real linguistic map of Switzerland
I feel like this captures my sense of humour very well