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Are the Swiss an ethnicity or simply a group of the ethnicities of surrounding nations (French, German, Italian, with Romanch only in Switzerland)?
So are the French-speaking Swiss of Romandie French or Swiss, and what is the denonym? Romandians?
What of the Swiss Germans? Just Germans or Allemanics?
A ethnicity speaking many different native languages seems quite strange in the traditional sense, usually an ethnicity speaks one native language and usually some foreign ones too, like the Welsh speak Welsh as natives and English which was imposed somewhat.
Switzerland's terrain could have made it quite isolated for large scale movements of people in the past which probably accounts for how French survived in Romandie, Romanch in the high mountains, Italian in the South and Allemanic German amongst the Swiss Germans.
So who are the Swiss? Who do they see themselves as? The same as the surrounding nations, just a different country or as a unique, mutlilingual ethnicity.
Ethnicity or a group of ethnicities?
(If there's any Swiss on here, their opinion obviously counts for a lot)
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