Swiss people | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 06/10/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_people


00:00:59 1 Ethno-linguistic composition
00:01:59 2 Cultural history and national identity
00:03:28 3 Citizenship and naturalization
00:04:27 4 Genetics
00:05:27 5 Gallery
00:05:57 6 See also



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SUMMARY
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The Swiss (German: die Schweizer, French: les Suisses, Italian: gli Svizzeri, Romansh: ils Svizzers) are the citizens of Switzerland or people of Swiss ancestry.
The number of Swiss nationals has grown from 1.7 million in 1815 to 7 million in 2016. More than 1.5 million Swiss citizens hold multiple citizenship. 
About 11% of citizens live abroad (0.8 million, of whom 0.6 million hold multiple citizenship).
About 60% of those living abroad reside in the European Union (0.46 million). 
The largest groups of Swiss descendants and nationals outside Europe are found in the United States and Canada.
Although the  modern state of Switzerland  originated in 1848, the period of romantic nationalism, it is not a nation-state, and the Swiss are not usually considered to form a single ethnic group, but a confederacy (Eidgenossenschaft) or Willensnation ("nation of will", "nation by choice", that is, a consociational state), a term coined in conscious contrast to "nation" in the conventionally linguistic or ethnic sense of the term.
The demonym Swiss (formerly in English also Switzer) and the name of Switzerland, ultimately derive from the toponym Schwyz, have been in widespread use to refer to the Old Swiss Confederacy since the 16th century.