Barozi said:
Kai Master said:
Stefl1504 said:
Most swiss people talk german, then there are a lot of french speaking swiss people then italian and then retoromanian(is that the english expression?) So swiss people probably spread themselves something like:
german 50%
french 40%
italian 8%
retoromanian 2%
Arround the world there are deffinatly more french speakers, but considering that a lot of the french speaking population has not enough money (a lot of countries in africa have french as their major language)
Also Austrians don't talk that f**thy german, whe speak Austrian damnit, they just made a farce out of our cool language and tried to rule over the world while we didn't *cough*, also the german spoke in switzerland isn't standard german its Schwiizerdütsch and its also better than german ;P
So yeah, 82mil. plus ~3mil. speakers in the US against France, Belgium, French-Switzerland, Quebec... ~86 plus some other people arround the world = 129 millions ;P minus the probably african part of that population 90 millions... now make consider gamers... hum Germans are more into PC gaming but I would think that probably both groups sum up to the same amout of gamers...
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You're right, I forgot german speaking Swiss, French is only 20% of pop and german must be something like 75% (Italian is 1%).
What do you mean by Swiss german and Austrian german are not german, video games sold there are not in german and are also a different version translated ?
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nah he's just denying that his country doesn't have its own language but only a dialect :P
Also probably closer to high German than some other German dialects....
Swiss German however is kinda different.
Videogames in the European market have usually multiple languages on the disk. English, German, French being almost always included, followed by Italian, Spanish etc.
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Austrian was in fact declared by some language congress as a different language than german, because of specifical gramatical structures in spoken language as well as additional/different vocabluary in written/spoken language, for naming several examples:
Austrian vs. German
Paradaiser - Tomate
Türken/Kukuruz - Mais
Eierschwammerl - Pfifferling
Erdäpfel - Kartoffel
Tixo - Tesafilm
Topfen - Quark
Marmelade - Konfitüre
Semmel - Brötchen
You can also get Marmelade in Germany but it won't be the same thing you get in Austria, you can also get Brötchen in Austria but it won't be the same you get in Germany
(I know most of the things above are just food but anyway ;P)
We have our own Austrian Dictionary, differentiating Spelling from german.
Austrian was declared it's own language because it has every aspect a language needs to be a language - different Dialects, its own historical developement, a differenting Grammar from other related languages, unic way of spelling, pronounciation and grammar, all given to the Austrian Language, it's the same as Schwiizerdütsch is not German, while Austrian and German are really similar languages and you probably don't have problems understanding one another, but thats just the same as slovene, croatian and other languages spoken in the former jugoslavia.
