SwitzerlandHistoire suisse 4 · Swiss history
After Roman rule ended, new peoples settled in the territory of today's Switzerland. What is considered one origin of the language border between German and French?
In the exam (French)
Après la fin de la domination romaine, de nouveaux peuples se sont installés sur le territoire de la Suisse actuelle. Qu'est-ce qui est considéré comme une origine de la frontière linguistique entre l'allemand et le français ?
- aThe reformers made French the language of the Church in the west of the country.Les réformateurs ont imposé le français comme langue d'Église dans l'ouest du pays.
- bNapoleon fixed the border between German and French in a law in 1803.Napoléon a fixé la frontière entre l'allemand et le français dans une loi en 1803.
- cThe Alemanni kept their language; the Burgundians adopted the Romance language of the inhabitants.Les Alamans ont gardé leur langue, les Burgondes ont adopté le roman des habitants.Correct answer
- dIn 1848 the federal state divided all cantons according to their main language.L'État fédéral a réparti en 1848 tous les cantons selon leur langue principale.
Why?
In the early Middle Ages, the Alemanni (Alamans) settled in the north and east and went on speaking their Germanic language. In the west, the Burgundians (Burgondes) adopted the Romance language of the inhabitants, which came from Latin; this is how the border between the German-speaking and French-speaking regions came about.
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