Swiss+language
121Ryukyuan languages — language name=Ryukyuan familycolor=Isolate states=Japan (Okinawa Prefecture, Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture) speakers= 900,000 fam1=Japonic nation= none lc1=ams|ld1=Southern Amami Oshima|ll1=Southern Amami Oshima language… …
122History of the Jews in Switzerland — Swiss Jews have a long and varied history. The 2000 census reports close to 18,000 Jews (that is, adherents of Judaism) living in Switzerland.HistoryThe first Jews could have reached the area of what is now Switzerland during imperial Roman times …
123Bichsel, Peter — ▪ Swiss author born March 24, 1935, Lucerne, Switz. Swiss short story writer, journalist, and novelist known for his simple, self conscious writing style and his emphasis on language and conjecture. From 1941 Bichsel grew up in Olten …
124Bridel, Philippe-Sirice — ▪ Swiss author born Nov. 20, 1757, Begnins, Switz. died May 20, 1845, Montreux man of letters, known as le doyen Bridel, who advocated an indigenous Swiss literature and tried to awaken a national consciousness in all areas of life. A French… …
125Journal de Genève — ▪ Swiss newspaper daily newspaper published in Geneva, Switzerland. Among French language newspapers it was generally regarded as the best in Switzerland and one of the premier papers in the world. It was established in 1826. Like the …
126Gotthelf, Jeremias — ▪ Swiss writer pseudonym of Albert Bitzius born Oct. 4, 1797, Morat, Switz. died Oct. 22, 1854, Lützelflüh Swiss novelist and short story writer whose vivid narrative works extol the virtues of Bernese rural people and defend traditional… …
127Ramuz, Charles-Ferdinand — ▪ Swiss author born Sept. 24, 1878, Cully, Switz. died May 23, 1947, Pully, near Lausanne Swiss novelist whose realistic, poetic, and somewhat allegorical stories of man against nature made him one of the most prominent French Swiss writers …
128Boner, Ulrich — ▪ Swiss writer Latin Ulrich Bonerius flourished 1324–49 Swiss writer and Dominican monk, whose collection of fables in verse was the first book to be printed in the German language (Bamberg, 1461). Boner, known to have been of a… …
