Indo-European · ISO 639-3 ltz · lb
Luxembourgish Language Lëtzebuergesch
Luxembourgish is an Indo-European language spoken by about 420,000 people in 1 country. It is an official language of Luxembourg. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Luxembourgish is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Luxembourgish
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Germanic
- Northwest Germanic
- West Germanic
- High German
- Middle German
- West Middle German
- Middle Franconian
- Luxembourgish
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Luxembourgish language
Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch) is spoken by about 420,000 people, which makes it the 501st most spoken language in the world — just behind Kumyk (426,212) and ahead of Samoan (415,720). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Middle Franconian group within the Germanic branch.
Where is Luxembourgish spoken?
Luxembourgish is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Luxembourg (449,740). More than half of the population speaks it in Luxembourg — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Luxembourgish is an official language in 1 country: Luxembourg.
Writing system and status
Luxembourgish 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 Limburgan, Hunsrik, Pfaelzisch, Upper Saxon, Eastern Yiddish, German and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 lb, ISO 639-3 ltz.
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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.