Swiss National Bank
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The Swiss National Bank is the central bank of Switzerland, responsible for the nation's monetary policy and the sole issuer of Swiss franc banknotes. The primary goal of its mandate is to ensure price stability, while taking economic developments into consideration.
Headquarters on the Bundesplatz in Bern
Share of the Swiss National Bank, issued 6 June 1907
Schweizerische Nationalbank (Swiss National Bank), 5 Franken (1914). The portrait depicts William Tell (based on Richard Kissling's monument in Altdorf), with the Rütli Mountain in the distance. Signed by K. Bornhauser (Chief Cashier), Johann-Daniel Hirter (President of the Swiss National Bank Council), and August Burckhardt (Board member).
Sign asking the Swiss National Bank to divest from fossil fuels, at a climate demonstration in Bern (2019).
Romansh language
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Romansh is a Gallo-Romance language spoken predominantly in the Swiss canton of the Grisons (Graubünden). Romansh has been recognized as a national language of Switzerland since 1938, and as an official language in correspondence with Romansh-speaking citizens since 1996, along with German, French, and Italian. It also has official status in the canton of the Grisons alongside German and Italian and is used as the medium of instruction in schools in Romansh-speaking areas. It is sometimes grouped by linguists with Ladin and Friulian as the Rhaeto-Romance languages, though this is disputed.
"La mort da Benedetg Fontana", a Romansh passage in a Latin chronicle by Durich Chiampel
Front page of Ilg Vêr Sulaz da pievel giuvan
Cover page of Ortografia et ortoëpia del idiom romauntsch d'Engiadin'ota
A 6th-series 10-Swiss franc bill, the first to include Romansh