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The opening of this appears to have been partly plagiarized from the American Heritage Dictionary, unfortunately. 65.213.77.129 ( talk) 15:04, 12 December 2007 (UTC) reply

"when it is inappropriate or inconvenient to use any or all of its four official languages". What are these four languages? And if it is inappropriate to use one of the official languages, why would anyone use a totally different set of words, not in one of those languages? It does not make sense. Kiltpin ( talk) 10:57, 24 July 2019 (UTC) reply

See Switzerland.-- Johnsoniensis ( talk) 00:25, 10 January 2021 (UTC) reply

"when it is inappropriate or inconvenient to use any or all of its four official languages". What are these four languages? And if it is inappropriate to use one of the official languages, why would anyone use a totally different set of words, not in one of those languages? It does not make sense. Kiltpin ( talk) 10:57, 24 July 2019 (UTC) reply

4 Languages are

- Swiss german

- French

- Italian

- romantsch

I agree with you :

Quoted sentence does not make sense 72.134.196.84 ( talk) 08:05, 8 June 2023 (UTC) reply

No further inline references needed. 12.188.52.247 ( talk) 10:16, 22 February 2022 (UTC) reply