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Luxembourgish is considered the national language of Luxembourg and also one of the three administrative languages, alongside German and French. [11] [12] In Luxembourg, 77% of residents can speak Luxembourgish, [13] and it is the primary language of 48% of the population. [14]
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Language family: Indo-European, Germanic, West Germanic, High German, West Central German, Central Franconian, Moselle Franconian; Number of speakers: c. 600,000; Spoken in: Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, France; First written: 1829; Writing system: Latin script; Status: official language in Luxembourg. Recognised language in Belgium
Luxembourgish ( / ˈlʌksəmbɜːrɡɪʃ / LUK-səm-bur-ghish; also Luxemburgish, Luxembourgian, Letzebu (e)rgesch; endonym: Lëtzebuergesch [ ˈlətsəbuəjəʃ] ⓘ) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 300,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide. Quick Facts Pronunciation, Native to ...
Luxembourgish is a Moselle-Franconian dialect, which was a mainly spoken language up to the 19th century and became the national language in 1984. Today, Luxembourgish is the mother tongue of most Luxembourgers. It sounds close to Dutch, being a mixture of German and French with regional and even locally varying dialects.
