That’s hello in Luxembourgish - this week’s #WeeklyTongue!
Luxembourgish is spoken by approximately 400,000 people worldwide and is the national language of Luxembourg alongside French and German. It is a Germanic language with similarities with German and Dutch, as well as some words borrowed from French.
Luxembourgish has three genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter) as well as three cases (nominative, accusative, and dative). Three genders and some cases - we can see the similarities with German here!
However, to form the comparative in Luxembourgish, we add the adverb ‘méi’ in front of the adjective. Interestingly though, the superlative is formed by adding ‘st’ to the end of adjectives.
At school, lessons tend to be in German with Luxembourgish explanations to begin with until later on in school, all lessons are taught in German except maths and science, which is taught in French.
Want to start speaking Luxembourgish?
Wéi get et dir? - how are you? (informal)
Wéi heeschs du? - What’s your name?
Ek heeschen… - My name is…
Schwätzt du Lëtzebuergesch? - Do you speak Luxembourgish?
Here are some interesting links about Luxembourgish to take things further:
Omniglot: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/luxembourgish.htm
Online free course: http://www.quattropole.org/en/e_learning
One Minute Luxembourgish: https://radiolingua.com/category/shows/oml-lux/
Online Luxembourgish dictionary: http://www.dico.lu/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourgish_language
Do you speak Luxembourgish? We’re always looking for submissions from native language speakers! Have you thought about submitting a video?
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