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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 18:23:42 JST kaia
   Bienne/Biel is the largest bilingual city in Switzerland, also called the City of Communication.
   
   In 2020, when asked specifically about the two official languages, 32,154 residents (56.8% of the population) mentioned German as their principal language, while 24,376 (43.2%) mentioned French.
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 20:43:19 JST kaia

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     • Antti Metsänkylä
     @antmetsa oh that's way less Italian than I expected. but then again south of the border they also speak German :akko_mmh:
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     Antti Metsänkylä (antmetsa@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 20:43:20 JST Antti Metsänkylä

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     @kaia
     Interesting. I didn't know about Bienne/Biel's bilinguality, new for me.

     In the whole country there is (after a statistics I saw for a while ago)
     65,6 % German
     22,8 % French
     8,4 % Italian
     0,6 % Retoromanian

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     Antti Metsänkylä (antmetsa@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 21:07:49 JST Antti Metsänkylä

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     @kaia
     The Italian amount was a surprise for me, too. But there is a multilinguality on the both sides of the border, indeed.

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