Languages: The Language Law of 1984 decrees that “the official language of Luxembourgers shall be Luxembourgian” (Art.1). As such, Luxembourg is one of 2 EU Member States where an official language is not an official language of the EU (the other being Turkish spoken in Cyprus). Subsequent articles of the Language Law decree that legislative acts shall be done in French and that in “contentious or non-contentious administrative or judicial matters, French, German of Luxembourgian may be used". Between 2000 and 2002, the Luxembourgish linguist Jerome Lulling developed a lexical database of 185,000 word forms for the very first Luxembourgish spellchecker, thus launching the computerization of the Luxembourgish language.
Co-official Languages: Luxembourg has no regional or minority languages but it ratified the European Charter for Regional or Miniority Language.
Language Strategies: In 1984, Luxembourgian (or Luxembourgish) was “officialised” as national language (but without further explanation what “national” entails. French is de facto used by the Administration and Legislation (the latter is based on the French Code Napoléon).
Luxemburg LR Policy makers (LTO directory incl. EC units based in LUX)
Other Relevant Organisations:
Office Luxembourgeois de L’Accueil et de L’Integration (OLAI): This organization is sponsored by the Government as a tool within the framework of facilitating the integration of the foreigners which are legal citizens in Luxembourg while offering training languages course and citizenship courses in Luxembourgish which is the national language.
Actioun Lëtzebuergesch: The purpose of this non-profit organization was to promote the Luxembourgish language and to speak for everything that is related with it. This organization contributed to the establishment of the Law of the Luxembourgish as the first language in 1984.
University of Luxembourg: At the university of Luxembourg is establishes a Research center on Multilingualism which carries out different researches in regard to Luxembourgish languages and also the other two official languages. The University is a member of Clarin but not a partner.
National Languages Institute: It is a public establishment center which is offering language courses in Luxembourgish also in one of the three other official languages of Luxembourg.
