I think it is gives a misleading picture to only include mother-language
speakers, rather than all languages (at a reasonable level of fluency).
Every Swiss German is fluent in High German.
Part of the problem is that it is very hard to get good data on the
multiple languages that people speak—a
If the various Chinese languages/dialects are similar enough to be counted in a
single category, then certainly Swiss German Is similar enough to the German
spoken in Germany and Austria to be counted in the same category.
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On May 27, 2015, at 07:59, Denis Jacquerye
The data used to build the infographic comes from Ethnologue.com.
http://www.ethnologue.com/language/deu does not indicate the Standard
German L1 population in Austria and gives a population of 727 000 Standard
German L1 speakers in Switzerland (the difference is counted as Swiss
German L1
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