Standard German in Switzerland

Speakers

5,161,247

Type

Location

Standard German in Switzerland

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Standard German in Switzerland

Size

5,161,247

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
German linguistic region

Size / Number of users

Number of users

5161247
Source
FSO, Structural Statement (RS)
Year
2016

Users within total population

62.00000
More than 50% use the language

PROPORTION

62
Source
FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Users within the reference community

More than 50% use the language
Actual percentage
85
Source
FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Age distribution of users

3,427,796
66
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Age distribution of users

758,257
15
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Age distribution of users

975,112
19
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
155,963
Primary education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

39
61
549,015
Lower secondary education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

46
54
2,301,791
Higher secondary education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

60
40
1,352,557
Tertiary education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Occupational qualifications

40
60
98,999
Elementary occupations
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

86
14
94,234
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

87
13
297,807
Craft and related trades workers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

78
22
61,064
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

31
69
416,818
Services and sales workers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

29
71
243,695
Clerical support workers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

49
51
584,859
Technicians and associate professionals
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

54
46
616,209
Professionals
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

70
30
327,333
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