Switzerland Languages

Description
Switzerland has four official languages: (Many Swiss speak more than one language)
 * German - 65% of the population (spoken in fifteen cantons)
 * French - 18% (spoken officially in six cantons:  Fribourg, Vaud, Jura, Valais, Neuchâtel, and Geneva)
 * Italian - 10% (spoken in Ticino and parts of Graubünden)
 * Romansh - 1% (an old Latin dialect spoken mainly in the mountains of Graubünden)
 * Others - 6%

Records are written in the major languages and Latin which was used extensively in early records.

Word List(s)

 * German Genealogical Word List
 * French Genealogical Word List
 * Italian Genealogical Word List
 * Swiss-German Genealogical Word List
 * Useful Phrases in German - Omniglot]
 * Useful Phrases in French - Omniglot]
 * Useful Phrases in Italian - Omniglot]
 * Useful Phrases in Romansh - Omniglot]

Alphabet and Pronunciation

 * German Language Alphabet and Pronunciation - Omniglot
 * French Language Alphabet and Pronunciation - Omniglot
 * italian Language Alphabet and Pronunciation - Omniglot
 * Romansh Language Alphabet and Pronunciation - Omniglot

Language Aids and Dictionaries
Language Aids

Dictionaries
 * Susie Beattie & Joyce Littlejohn, Collins German dictionary, Glasgow : HarperCollins Publisher, 2019 - Available at WorldCat
 * Denis Girard, Cassell's French-English, English-French dictionary, 	New York : Macmillan : Wiley, 2002 - Available at WorldCat
 * Piero Rèbora, Francis M Guercio & Arthur Lawrence Hayward, Cassell's Italian dictionary : Italian-English, English-Italian, New York : Wiley, 2002 - Available at WorldCat
 * Manfred Gross & Daniel Telli, Romansh-English, English-Romansh : dictionary and phrasebook, New York : Hippocrene Books, 2007 - Available at WorldCat

Online Dictionaries
 * English-German Dictionary - Collins
 * English-French Dictionary - Collins
 * English-Italian Dictionary - Collins
 * English-Romansh Dictionary - Glosbe

Additional Resources

 * Languages of Switzerland - Wikipedia
 * German language - Wikipedia
 * French language - Wikipedia
 * Italian language - Wikipedia
 * Romansh language - Wikipedia
 * 18 interesting facts about Switzerland’s fourth language: Romansh
 * Why Are There Four Languages Spoken in Switzerland?