Indo-European · ISO 639-3 lim · li
Limburgan Language Limburgs
Limburgan is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.6 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Limburgan is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Limburgan
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Germanic
- Northwest Germanic
- West Germanic
- High German
- Middle German
- West Middle German
- Middle Franconian
- Ripuarian
- Limburgan
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Limburgan language
Limburgan (Limburgs) is spoken by about 1.6 million people, which makes it the 355th most spoken language in the world — just behind Kabardian (1.6 million) and ahead of Western Maninkakan (1.6 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Ripuarian group within the Germanic branch.
Where is Limburgan spoken?
Limburgan is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Netherlands (977,482).
Limburgan is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Limburgan is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Luxembourgish, Hunsrik, Pfaelzisch, Upper Saxon, Eastern Yiddish, German and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 li, ISO 639-3 lim.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.