Italian in Switzerland

Speakers

672,938

Type

Location

Italian in Switzerland

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Italian in Switzerland

Size

672,938

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
Italian linguistic region

Size / Number of users

Number of users

672938
Source
FSO, Structural Statement (RS)
Year
2016

Users within total population

8.00000
Less than 10% use the language

PROPORTION

8
Source
FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Users within the reference community

More than 50% use the language
Actual percentage
87
Source
FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Age distribution of users

445,118
66
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Age distribution of users

81,884
12
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Age distribution of users

145,936
22
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

45
55
77,506
Primary education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

48
52
98,717
Lower secondary education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

51
49
257,909
Higher secondary education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

58
42
148,690
Tertiary education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Occupational qualifications

42
58
23,665
Elementary occupations
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

87
13
12,887
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

91
9
38,152
Craft and related trades workers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

89
11
3,369
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

40
60
53,722
Services and sales workers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

34
66
37,393
Clerical support workers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

55
45
57,498
Technicians and associate professionals
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

59
41
60,399
Professionals
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

71
29
31,836
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
complementary

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