This article is about the language. For the people of Luxembourg, see Luxembourgers.
Luxembourgish
Lëtzebuergesch
Pronunciation
[ˈlətsəbuəjəʃ]ⓘ
Native to
Luxembourg; Saarland and north-west Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; Arelerland and Saint-Vith district, Belgium; Moselle department, France
Region
Western Europe
Ethnicity
Luxembourgers
Native speakers
300,000 (2024)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
High German
Central German
West Central German
Central Franconian
Moselle Franconian
Luxembourgish
Writing system
Latin (Luxembourgish alphabet)
Luxembourgish Braille
Official status
Official language in
Luxembourg
Recognised minority language in
Belgium (recognised by the French Community of Belgium)
Regulated by
Council for the Luxembourgish Language
Language codes
ISO 639-1
lb
ISO 639-2
ltz
ISO 639-3
ltz
Glottolog
luxe1243
Linguasphere
52-ACB-db
The area where Luxembourgish (pale indigo) and other dialects of Moselle Franconian (medium indigo) are spoken. The internal isogloss for words meaning "on, at", i.e. op and of, is also shown (Standard German: auf).
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Luxembourgish (/ˈlʌksəmbɜːrɡɪʃ/LUK-səm-bur-ghish; also Luxemburgish,[2]Luxembourgian,[3]Letzebu(e)rgesch;[4] endonym: Lëtzebuergesch[ˈlətsəbuəjəʃ]ⓘ) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 400,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide.[5]
The language is a standardized language and officially the 'national language' of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. As such, Luxembourgish is different from the German language also used in the Grand Duchy. The German language exists in a national standard variety of Luxembourg, which is slightly different from the standard varieties in, say, Germany or Austria. Another important language of Luxembourg is French, which had a certain influence on both the national language Luxembourgish and the Luxembourg national variety of German. Luxembourgish, German and French are the three official languages (Amtssprachen) of Luxembourg.
As a standard form of the Moselle Franconian language, Luxembourgish has similarities with other High German dialects and the wider group of West Germanic languages. The status of Luxembourgish as the national language of Luxembourg and the existence there of a regulatory body[6] have removed Luxembourgish, at least in part, from the domain of Standard German, its traditional Dachsprache. It is also related to the Transylvanian Saxon dialect spoken by the Transylvanian Saxons in Transylvania, contemporary central Romania.
^Luxembourgish at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^"Luxemburgish – definition of Luxemburgish in English from the Oxford dictionary". Archived from the original on 7 July 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
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Kas Deprez (1997). Michael G. Clyne (ed.). "Diets, Nederlands, Nederduits, Hollands, Vlaams, Belgisch-Nederlands". Undoing and Redoing Corpus Planning. Walter de Gruyter: 249. ISBN 9783110155099.
Bengt Skoog (1983). Immigrants and Cultural Development in European Towns. Council for Cultural Co-operation. p. 51. ISBN 9789287102393.
National Geographic Society (2005). Our Country's Regions: Outline maps. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. p. 59. ISBN 9780021496259.
^"Letzeburgesch – definition of Lëtzeburgesch in English from the Oxford dictionary". Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
^"Le nombre de locuteurs du luxembourgeois revu à la hausse" (PDF). Retrieved 8 November 2012.
^"Law establishing the Conseil Permanent de la Langue Luxembourgeoise (CPLL)" (PDF).
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