Making English One of the Official Languages to Complement Switzerland’s Multilingual Heritage

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The Swiss Federal Council and Parliament

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  1. Launched November 2024
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Together, there are more Portuguese and Spanish native speakers in Switzerland than English native speakers, not to mention all the other language minorities combined 2. We already use English informally as Lingua Franca, specially in the scientific fields. 3. It will further increase the costs of democratic, legal and administrative processes. 4. It will reinforce English as an hegemonic language, reducing cultural diversity, a cornerstone of Swiss Democracy and economic resilience.

Source: danielfrei.ch/zirkular/die-grenzen-meiner-sprache-bedeuten-die-grenzen-meiner-welt-ludwig-wittgenstein (Witt

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Schweiz, Eidgenoss

Wir haben 4 Landessprachen und eine Geschichte, English gehört da nicht dazu. Sorry

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