Re: Cirque Knie

ian smith wrote:

David Cain wrote:

On Sep 10, 4:10 pm, ni...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (It's Him) wrote:
Adam Rowney wrote:

The Suisse speak German, French and Italian, depending on where they
live.

I think you'll also find they speak Romansch. At least my O-level
geography memories tell me that they have 4 official languaages.

Nigel

Why doesn't Geography teach you how to read a map?

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That is correct, four official languages.

David Cain


I had originally thought that the Swiss spoke Flemish, a little while ago
someone corrected me and told me they (mostly)spoke German.

That's probably because we speak Swiss German, which is quite different
from "real" German (Germans barely understand it), and it sounds a little
bit like Dutch or Flemish, but is in fact very different, so the Dutch and
the Swiss German don't understand each other.
People (e. g. from the French part of Switzerland) usually don't learn
Swiss German, because it hasn't got a written language (we use standard
German) and there are many different dialects.
I think the language percentages in Switzerland are about 50% Swiss
German, 30% French, 10% Italian and 10% other, where Rumantsch is only a
tiny part, there are probably more people in Switzerland who speak
Serbo-Croation or something :-p

At school my
French teacher told me that all Belgians talk in French - I have since
been reliably informed that some Belgians speak Dutch, some others speak
Flemish.

And some Belgians even speak German, just a small minority, but I think
it's still an official language.

-romanzo

A Swiss German who will soon move to the French part of Switzerland and
then hopefully become (more or less) bilingual...
(I will also visit Knie there, as I missed it, when it was around here...)

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