Thread: Would you like to have Swiss German as an official language in place of High German?
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Old 23.03.2007, 10:27
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Re: Would you like to have Swiss German as an official language in place of High Germ
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You are correct about Rumantsch alessione, there was a fair bit of haggle to decide a common version as well...

My only way of communicating with Swiss-Germans who can't speak French is English. I suspect they even prefer that to talk in German and it's a neutral language, normally both interlocutors will be on equal footing. You expat chaps probably don't really realise how fraught it can be at times when dealing between Swiss French and Swiss German
What you have just written is the very reason why I have started this thread. If Swiss Germans somehow "refuse" German as an official language, why not let them free to raise Swiss German to the rank of official language for the German-speaking part of Switzerland?
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