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Interestingly, that situation resembles the one of the bigger German speaking population.

The people are speaking their own dialects which differ that much that you can easily locate from which part of the country the speaker is from.

The native German Swiss only speak their Swiss German dialects among each other, with no single one dominating. In writing OTOH, standard German is used, although of course the usage of standard German has a much longer history than in the case of Romansh.




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