Mother/main language in Switzerland Language 2000[15] Mother Tongue 2015[16] Main Language 2017[17] Number % Number % Number % German 4,639,762 63.7% 4,424,150 64% 4,459,323 63.4% French 1,484,411 20.4% 1,567,197 22.7% 1,607,865 22.9% Italian 470,961 6.5% 581,381 8.4% 593,205 8.4% Romansch 35,072 0.5% 40,299 0.6% 40,444 0.6% English 73,422 1% 374,642 5.4% 414,890 5.9% Portuguese 89,527 1.2% 256,560 3.7% Albanian 94,937 1.3% 188,125 2.7% Serbo-Croatian 103,350 1.4% 161,882 2.3% Spanish 76,750 1.1% 159,859 2.3% Turkish 44,523 0.6% 78,015 1.1% Arabic 14,345 0.2% 36,857 0.5% Russian 8,570 0.1% 32,244 0.5% Tamil 21,816 0.3% 31,145 0.5% Polish 5,206 0.1% 24,881 0.4% Dutch 11,840 0.2% 22,357 0.3% Hungarian 6,194 0.1% 20,597 0.3% Kurdish 7,531 0.1% 19,401 0.3% Thai 7,569 0.1% 14,528 0.2% Greek 4,792 0.1% 13,763 0.2% Czech 5,444 0.1% 13,433 0.2% Romanian 3,397 0% 12,738 0.2% Chinese 8,279 0.1% 12,324 0.2% Slovak 2,018 0% 12,072 0.2% Persian 3,467 0% 11,108 0.2% Macedonian 6,415 0.1% 10,698 0.2% Swedish 5,560 0.1% 8,771 0.1% Vietnamese 4,226 0.1% 6,720 0.1% Tagalog 3,019 0% 6,275 0.1% Japanese 4,100 0.1% 6,001 0.1% Danish 2,739 0% 5,272 0.1% Tibetan 1,108 0% 5,219 0.1% Bulgarian 1,579 0% 4,583 0.1% Finnish 2,628 0% 4,299 0.1% Hindi-Urdu 1,407 0% 3,846 0.1% Slovene 1,601 0% 3,690 0.1% Somali 2,661 0% 3,607 0.1% Aramaic 1,333 0% 2,465 0% Hebrew 1,176 0% 2,159 0% Norwegian 1,361 0% 2,108 0% Korean 1,202 0% 1,816 0% Other languages 77,751 1.1% 1,300,589 18.5%