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Is German or French more common?

I knew someone in S.F. who married a woman from Switzerland roughly 5 years ago and moved out there...did you work at a software consulting company in S.F.?

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Hi,

Is German or French more common? >

It depends base on the canton, but in the overall swiss german is more spoken than french.

I knew someone in S.F. who married a woman from Switzerland roughly 5 years ago and moved out there...did you work at a software consulting company in S.F.? >

Can't be me, I'm a female ^^.

Depends where you go in Switzerland, my understanding is that the country is sort of divided into two parts depending on language. Same as in Belgium.

3 parts: German-speaking, French-speaking, Italian-speaking

The ~west speaks French (we call the region Romandie), south-east speaks Italian (canton of Ticino), the rest speaks (Swiss-)German.

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