A comment by Mark Vella to a Wired Temples posting about EU Pundit corrects a sentence in our prevous posting. That sentence should correctly read:
"In Luxembourg, it is French or Luxembourgish (also called Lëtzebuergesch), which have the upper hand...."
Mark writes:
"Just a comment re. language in Luxembourg. Luxembourgish is not French, but it is a German dialect. It is widely used as the standard medium of conversation.
French is more of an official language. Everyone is fluent in it. It is used for most signage and other literature. The Luxembourgish parliament debates in the national language but drafts its laws in French.
German is also spoken in the east German frontier cantons. What is interesting that due to the fact that there is a considerable Portuguese community in Luxembourg, there is a trend to use Portuguese in certain communications (eg. bank statments)."
More information on Luxembourgish is found at:
Omniglot
Wikipedia
Luxembourgish English Dictionary
The Language Luxembourgish
Languages in Luxembourg
Mark Vella writes the blog XIFER Il-blogg mit-truf in Maltese language.
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