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About 300,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide. 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.
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Native name: Lëtzebuergesch [ˈlətsəbuəjəʃ] 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.
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 ... Close.
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.
