Editing Demographics of Switzerland (section)

==Languages==
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{{Main|Languages of Switzerland}}
[[File:Switzerland Linguistic EN.png|300px|thumb|Main languages in Switzerland:<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/population.html| title = Swiss Federal Statistical Office FSO. 31 January 2017}}</ref>
{{legend|red|[[German language|German]]}}
{{legend|purple|[[French language|French]]}}
{{legend|green|[[Italian language|Italian]]}}
{{legend|yellow|[[Romansh language|Romansh]]}}]]

The four national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian and [[Romansh language|Romansh]].
In 2017, permanent residents who spoke German (mostly [[Swiss German]] dialects) as their main language or co-main language numbered about 63% (5.2 million), followed by 22.9% (1.9 million) for French (mostly [[Swiss French]], but including some [[Franco-Provençal language|Franco-Provençal]] dialects), 8.2% (678,000) for Italian (mostly [[Swiss Italian]], but including [[Insubric]] dialects) and less than 0.5% (44,000) for [[Romansh language|Romansh]].<ref name=BFS_2017_Language>{{cite web |url=https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/bevoelkerung/sprachen-religionen/sprachen.assetdetail.7466542.html |title= Die zehn häufigsten Hauptsprachen der ständigen Wohnbevölkerung (The ten most common main languages of the population) |date=2017 |website= bfs.admin.ch |publisher= Swiss Federal Statistical Office |access-date= 8 October 2019|quote=These statistics allow a respondent to list multiple main languages. Swiss population in 2017 was 8.3 million, but the totals of main languages was 9.9 million.}}</ref>

The non-official language with the largest group of main or co-main language speakers (in 2017) is [[English language|English]] with 448,000 speakers, followed by [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] with 303,000, [[Albanian language|Albanian]] with 262,000, followed by [[Serbo-Croatian]] with 205,000 speakers and [[Spanish language|Spanish]] with 197,000. All other languages totaled 640,000.<ref name=BFS_2017_Language/>