Languages of Luxembourg
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. 457,000. National or official languages: French, Standard German, Luxembourgeois. Literacy rate: 100%. Immigrant languages: Italian (20,800), Kabuverdianu (3,000), Portuguese (65,600). Information mainly from M. Stephens 1976. Blind population: 204. Deaf population: 24,373. Deaf institutions: 1. The number of individual languages listed for Luxembourg is 3. Of those, all are living languages.
| French | [fra]
13,100 in Luxembourg (Johnstone 1993).
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Oïl, French
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| German, Standard | [deu]
10,900 in Luxembourg (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001).
Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Middle German, East Middle German
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| Luxembourgeois | [ltz]
250,000 in Luxembourg (1998). Population total all countries: 320,830. Also in Belgium, France, Germany, United States.
Alternate names: Frankish, Letzburgisch, Lëtzebuergesch, Luxembourgish, Luxemburgian, Luxemburgish, Moselle Franconian.
Dialects: As distinct from Standard German as is Dutch [nld] (Stephens 1976); not inherently intelligible with it. A Moselle variety of Frankish-German origin, related to varieties of Mitteldeutsch of Belgium.
Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Middle German, West Middle German, Moselle Franconian
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