Luxembourgish
Germanic language or language variety spoken in Luxembourg
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Summary
Luxembourgish is a language[1]. Luxembourgish ranks in the top 0.41% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,496 views/month, #23 of 5,611).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Luxembourg[3], Belgium[4], France[5], Germany[6]
- Instance of: modern language[7]
- Subclass of: West Moselle Franconian[8]
- Writing system: Luxembourgish alphabet[9], Luxembourgish Braille[10]
- Commons category: Luxembourgish language[11]
- Wikimedia language code: lb[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Luxembourgish language[13]
- Language regulatory body: Permanent Council of the Luxembourgish[14]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 391,200[15], 79,000[16], 303,000[17]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Q132751108[18]
- Replaces: Frankish[19]
- Native label: Lëtzebuergesch[20]
- Short name: люксембургский[21], люксембурзька[22], люксэмбурская[23]
- Indigenous to: Luxembourg[24], Rhineland-Palatinate[25], Moselle[26], Arrondissement of Verviers[27], Merzig-Wadern[28], East Belgium[29], Saarland[30], Sankt Vith[31]
- Studied by: Luxembourgish studies[32]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/LTZ[33], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133114228[34]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[35], accusative case[36], dative case[37]
- Has tense: present tense[38], past tense[39], future tense[40]
- Ethnologue language status: 4 Educational[41]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[42], V2 word order[43], stress-timed language[44], nominative–accusative language[45], time–manner–place[46], fusional language[47], synthetic language[48], adjective-noun[49]
Why It Matters
Luxembourgish has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[50] Luxembourgish is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[51]