Country Info

Switzerland Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 8,153,937 people (99% of Switzerland) that can read or write at least one language.

10 Writing Systems used in Switzerland

German (Latin)

de-latn
language code
6,012,499
people

Swiss German (Latin)

gsw-latn
language code
5,353,595
people

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
5,024,143
people

French (Latin)

fr-latn
language code
1,729,623
people

Italian (Latin)

it-latn
language code
354,160
people

Lombard (Latin)

lmo-latn
language code
337,688
people

Portuguese (Latin)

pt-latn
language code
280,034
people

Romansh (Latin)

rm-latn
language code
41,181
people

Sinte Romani (Latin)

rmo-latn
language code
23,885
people

Walser (Latin)

wae-latn
language code
9,883
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR