Luxembourg

Extensive List of Languages of Luxembourg: Spoken and Extinct 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

German, Standard
[deu] 10,900 in Luxembourg (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001). Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Middle German, East Middle German

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

:: Reference ::
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/

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