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STAT	Canada	Switzerland	HISTORY
French status	Difficult intelligibility between speakers of Qu�b�cois and Acadian for speakers not fluent in Standard <a href=/country/fr>French</a>. National <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Bible 1530-1986.	33% of the <a href=/graph-T/peo_pop>population</a> of <a href=/country/sz>Switzerland</a> speak <a href=/country/fr>French</a> every day (1990 census). Official <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Used for <a href=/cat/Education>education</a> in French-speaking areas. Bible 1530-1986.
Languages	English (official) 59.3%, French (official) 23.2%, other 17.5%	German (official) 63.7%, French (official) 20.4%, Italian (official) 6.5%, Serbo-Croatian 1.5%, Albanian 1.3%, Portuguese 1.2%, Spanish 1.1%, English 1%, Romansch (official) 0.5%, other 2.8%; <i>note:</i> German, French, Italian, and Romansch are all national and official languages
Linguistic diversity index	0.549 Ranked 77th. About the same as Switzerland	0.547 Ranked 78th.
Major language(s)	English, French (both official)	German, French, Italian, Romansch

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