German is generally spoken in Switzerland.

1. Switzerland has four official languages: German, French, Italian and Romansh. About 65.6% of the residents speak German, 22.8% French, 8.4% Italian, and Romansh. 0.6%, other languages ??18.7%.

2. The most widely spoken language in Switzerland is German. 17 of the 26 cantons are German-speaking. The western region mainly speaks French and has four French-speaking cantons: Geneva, Jura, Neuchatel and Vaud. There are three bilingual German-French cantons: Bern, Friborg and Valais.

Extended information:

1. The formation of the German Standard *** can be traced back to Martin Luther's translation of the Latin Bible. It is the official language of Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Italian province of Bolzano, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Switzerland, and is written in the Latin alphabet.

2. The number of speakers of German accounts for 3.01% of the world's population. It is the sixth-ranked language in the world in terms of the number of countries where it is spoken. It is also one of the languages ??of the world's major powers and the most widely used mother tongue in the European Union.

3. The vocabulary size of German is estimated to be 300,000 to 500,000. The characteristic of word formation is the extensive use of derivation and compounding, and compound formation is the most common in German word formation. Two or more words of various parts of speech can be compounded into a new word. The first letter of nouns must be capitalized.

4. German belongs to the Indo-European language family and the Germanic language family. Also belonging to the same language family are: English, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, and Icelandic. German 1 has 42 phonemes, 19 vowels and 23 consonants.

Reference materials: Baidu Encyclopedia_Switzerland Baidu Encyclopedia_German