Luxembourgish in Luxembourg

Speakers

361,209

Type

Location

Luxembourgish in Luxembourg

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Luxembourgish in Luxembourg

Size

361,209

Lëtzebuergesch (français: luxembourgeois, allemand: Luxemburgisch) is since 1984 the national language of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg.

Other official languages are French and German.

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
Yes
Indigenous language
Yes

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials

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Audio

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes
Comments
www.lod.lu
www.zls.lu
www.lux.lu

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban

Size / Number of users

Number of users

361209
Source
census
Year
2011

Users within total population

70.00000
More than 50% use the language

PROPORTION

70
Source
census, 2011

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

231,174
64
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

census, 2011

Age distribution of users

69,352
19
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

census, 2011

Age distribution of users

60,683
17
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

census, 2011

Generational use

Educational attainment

No education
Source

census, 2011

Early childhood education
Source

census, 2011

41
59
47,933
Primary education
Source

census, 2011

90
10
261,950
Lower secondary education
Source

census, 2011

49
51
128,553
Higher secondary education
Source

census, 2011

56
44
65,421
Tertiary education
Source

census, 2011

Occupational qualifications

48
52
8,939
Elementary occupations
Source

census, 2011

94
6
6,377
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Source

census, 2011

94
6
10,446
Craft and related trades workers
Source

census, 2011

71
29
3,891
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Source

census, 2011

38
62
18,536
Services and sales workers
Source

census, 2011

42
58
22,061
Clerical support workers
Source

census, 2011

50
50
23,198
Technicians and associate professionals
Source

census, 2011

50
50
28,447
Professionals
Source

census, 2011

72
28
6,919
Managers
Source

census, 2011

Language competence

Language not used
Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Completion