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A map showing the Italian-speaking areas of Switzerland: the two different shades of blue denote the two cantons where Italian is an official language; dark blue shows areas where Italian is spoken by the majority of the population.
Italian is an official language of Italy, San Marino and Switzerland. Italian is also used in administration and official documents in Vatican City. [59] In central-east Europe Italian is first in Montenegro, second in Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, and Ukraine after English, and third in Hungary, Romania and Russia after English and German. [60]
Italian language in Switzerland. Italian Switzerland (Italian: Svizzera italiana, Romansh: Svizra taliana, French: Suisse italienne, German: italienische Schweiz) is the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, which includes the canton of Ticino and the southern part of Grisons.
The bay of Lugano, the largest Italian-speaking city of Switzerland Tertiary sector workers make up 76.5% of the Ticinese workforce, compared to the Swiss average of 67.1%. Commerce (23.1%), tourism (10.1%) and financial activities (3.9%) are all important for the local economy, while the contribution from agriculture and fishing is marginal ...
Map of Switzerland showing in blue color the Italian-speaking areas (Ticino and Italian Grisons), where Italian irredentism was strongest.Italian irredentism in Switzerland was a political movement that promoted the unification to Italy of the Italian-speaking areas of Switzerland during the Risorgimento.
As the revolutions of 1848 in Western Europe had failed elsewhere, Switzerland during the later 19th century (and with the exception of the French Third Republic, until the end of World War I) found itself as an isolated democratic republic, surrounded by the restored monarchies of France, Italy, Austria-Hungary and Germany.
The dominance of the Italian language in the canton has diminished in recent years, especially to the east in the two regions furthest from Ticino.This is believed to result from migration of German speakers into traditionally Italian-speaking areas, the spread of German language mass media and the absence of secondary schools teaching in Italian in Grisons. [2]
Switzerland, [e] officially the Swiss Confederation, [f] is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. [g] [13] It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.