Romansh in Switzerland

Speakers

41,425

Type

Location

Romansh in Switzerland

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Romansh in Switzerland

Size

41,425

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

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Video

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Audio

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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
Romansh linguistic region

Size / Number of users

Number of users

41425
Source
FSO, Structural Statement (RS)
Year
2016

Users within total population

0.00000
Less than 1% use the language

PROPORTION

0
Source
FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Users within the reference community

More than 50% use the language
Actual percentage
66
Source
FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Age distribution of users

24,870
60
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Age distribution of users

5,201
13
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Age distribution of users

11,354
27
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

42
58
1,691
Primary education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

32
68
6,402
Lower secondary education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

50
50
20,124
Higher secondary education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

64
36
7,665
Tertiary education
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

Occupational qualifications

53
47
950
Elementary occupations
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

100
951
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

93
7
2,501
Craft and related trades workers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

77
23
922
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

23
77
3,382
Services and sales workers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

22
78
1,952
Clerical support workers
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

57
43
3,012
Technicians and associate professionals
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

56
44
4,287
Professionals
Source

FSO, Structural Statement (RS), 2016

67
33
1,999
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
exclusive
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Stability
Decreasing

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