Romandy (in French and German Romandie), or la Suisse romande, is the French-speaking part of Switzerland. It covers the area of the cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel, and Jura as well as the French speaking parts of the cantons of Berne, Valais, and Fribourg.
The region itself does not exist in the political system but unifies the French speaking population of Switzerland. The television channel TSR serves the Romande community across Switzerland, and is syndicated to TV5.
The differences between SwissFrench and FrenchFrench are minor and mostly lexical: a SwissFrench speaker would have no trouble understanding a French speaker, while a French speaker would encounter only a few unfamiliar words while listening to a SwissFrench speaker.
This was not always the case; however, most of the dialects spoken in the Romandy died out and are thus no longer spoken or used.
There is not a single standardised SwissFrench language: different cantons (or even different towns in some cases) will use different vocabulary, often derived from the local regional language or from German, since Switzerland is predominantly German speaking.
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