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The four national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian and Romansh. All but Romansh maintain equal status as official languages at the national level within the Federal Administration of the Swiss Confederation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nfp56.ch/f_projekt.cfm?kati=3 ) 〕 In 2013, native speakers of German (chiefly Swiss German, though Standard German is also understood) number about 5 million (63.5%); for French (mostly Swiss French, but including some Arpitan dialects) they number 1.8 million (22.5%); for Italian (mostly Swiss Italian, but including Lombard dialects), 645,000 (8.1%); and for Romansch, 40,000 (0.5%). The German region (''Deutschschweiz'') is roughly in the east, north and center; the French part (''la Romandie'') in the west and the Italian area (''Svizzera italiana'') in the south. There remains a small Romansh-speaking native population in Graubünden in the east. The cantons of Fribourg, Bern and Valais are officially bilingual; Graubünden is officially trilingual. ==History== The main languages of Swiss residents from 1950 to 2012, in percentages, were as follows:〔 In 2012, for the first time, respondents could indicate more than one language, causing the percentages to exceed 100%〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Languages of Switzerland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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