Linguistic geography of Switzerland

The linguistic geography of Switzerland is on the main tripartite, with the Swiss German  region (Deutschschweiz) in the northeast, the Swiss French part (Romandie) in the west and the Swiss Italian Ticino in the south. There remains a small Rumantsch speaking minority in the Grisons.The four official languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian and Rumantsch. Native speakers number about 64% (4.6 million) for German (mostly Swiss German dialects), 20% (1.5 million, mostly Swiss French, but including some Franco-Provençal dialects) for French, 7% (0.5 million, mostly Swiss Italian, but including Lombardic dialects) for Italian and less than 0.5% (35,000) for Rumantsch.
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