Standard French in Switzerland

Speakers

1,885,295

Type

Location

Standard French in Switzerland

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Standard French in Switzerland

Size

1,885,295

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
No

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Video

Digital
Yes

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Audio

Digital
Yes

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
French linguistic region

Size / Number of users

Number of users

1885295
Source
FSO, Structural Statement (RS)
Year
2016

Users within total population

23.00000
Less than 50% use the language

PROPORTION

23
Source
FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Users within the reference community

More than 50% use the language
Actual percentage
83
Source
FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Age distribution of users

1,245,619
66
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Age distribution of users

302,147
16
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Age distribution of users

337,529
18
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Generational use

All generations

Educational attainment

No education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Early childhood education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

40
60
104,881
Primary education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

42
58
254,219
Lower secondary education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

48
52
690,038
Higher secondary education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

55
45
515,543
Tertiary education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Occupational qualifications

44
56
27,450
Elementary occupations
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

78
22
33,353
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

86
14
93,387
Craft and related trades workers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

88
12
19,284
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

35
65
135,853
Services and sales workers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

30
70
94,126
Clerical support workers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

49
51
178,559
Technicians and associate professionals
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

52
48
221,249
Professionals
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

65
35
102,805
Managers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Language competence

Language not used
Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion