Luxembourgish is a West Central German and West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 300,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide.
The language is … 展开

Standardisation
A number of proposals for standardising the orthography of Luxembourgish can be documented, going back to the middle of the 19th century. There … 展开

Nominal syntax
Luxembourgish has three genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), and three cases (nominative, accusative, and dative). … 展开

Luxembourgish was considered a German dialect like many others until about World War II but then it underwent ausbau, creating its own standard form in vocabulary, grammar, and … 展开

Luxembourgish is considered the national language of Luxembourg and also one of the three administrative languages, alongside 展开

Consonants
The consonant inventory of Luxembourgish is quite similar to that of Standard German 展开

Luxembourgish has borrowed many French words. For example, the word for a bus driver is Buschauffeur (as in Dutch and Swiss German), which would be Busfahrer in German and … 展开