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The University of Lugano is the major university of the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. There are almost no differences in the vowels of Swiss Italian and mainland Italian. Swiss Italian, similar to varieties of Italian in northern Italy and San Marino, lacks syntactic gemination. [13]
The history of Italian emigration to Switzerland continues in the second half of the 19th century. [7] [8] The majority of emigrants initially came from Northern Italy, above all from Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Lombardy. In 1860 there were 10,000 Italians in Switzerland, in 1900 there were 117,059 and in 1910, 202,809. [9]
Switzerland portal See also: Category:Swiss expatriates in Italy , Category:Swiss people of Italian descent , Category:Swiss-Italian people , and Category:Italian expatriates in Switzerland Subcategories
Italy portal; Switzerland portal; Swiss Italians, Swiss of the "Swiss Italian" community native to Switzerland (and centred in Ticino), should be listed in Category:Swiss-Italian people. Other Italians or their descendants who have Swiss citizenship should be listed on this page.
Radio stations in Switzerland (Radiomap.eu) emetteurs.ch, list of FM/DAB transmitters in Switzerland (in French) Local Radio list from the Swiss radio regulator (in German) Swissradio.net is a directory with the most popular radio stations
This category is misnamed (or ambiguously named). It is intended for Italian-speaking Swiss people, who constitute the majority of the population in Ticino, not for Category:Swiss people of Italian descent or Category:Italian people of Swiss descent.
The largest immigrant groups in Switzerland are those from Germany, Italy, France, the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Portugal and Turkey, including Turks and Kurds. Between them, these six groups account for about 1.5 million people, 60% of the Swiss population with immigrant background, or close to 20% of total Swiss population. [citation needed]
Italian irredentism in Switzerland was based on moderate Risorgimento ideals, and was promoted by Italian-Ticinese such as Adolfo Carmine. [ 1 ] Following the rise to power of Italian Fascism , however, the initial moderate irredentism started to change to one full of aggression: the same Benito Mussolini created in the early 1930s the Partito ...