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I mean like wrong? At least speaking for switzerland, there's no 'sharp line' like there's literally bilingual cities and cantons like Biel/Bienne when I moved closer to the french part the local dialect had more french words in it it's not a 'sharp line' at all. The Röstigraben is more used as a political term similar to something like the urban rural divide because the french speaking cantons are reliably more left than the swiss-german speaking part. As for Rhätisch more people speak portugese than it but I don't know what point that is for what it's worth my partner loves watching the Rätisch program and has gotten quite good and understanding more and more so that nowadays she can get the gist of it.
Like shit I 'conducted business' in french this week my guess is that if I was on the opposite side of the röstigrabe they would be able to speak german with me, actually they did in Fribourg so....
The maximum number of first-class-official languages is how many people are willing to support them. Again compared to Belgium the political parties aren't separate if I lived in the french part even not being able to speak a single word I'd be able to do shopping since everything is in german, french and italian, any government document they have to give out in an official language. In school I learned french so again. All about like actual effort.
Edit: Actually talking about Rumantsch there's literally a somewhat big indie game in Rumantsch you should check it out it's neat.