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Re:Forgetting My First Language by BurningFrog on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:55PM (#28411698)
Switzerland is a country of valleys separated by mountain ranges.

As i understand it, each isolated valley is pretty monolingual.

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Re:Forgetting My First Language by pbhjpbhj on Saturday September 04, 2021 @03:36AM (#28412943)
Switzerland also borders countries using those languages - it seems natural that linguistic borders wouldn't follow political borders especially well.
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