Luxembourgish - A Dialect of German? Or Separate Language?

This video is all about Luxembourgish and its features, in comparison with Standard German. I also talk about Luxembourg as a rich multilingual environment and try to give a bit of an idea of what life must be like there. Luxembourg is officially trilingual, having Luxembourgish, French, and German as its official languages. Most people speak more than one language and switch between them depending on the setting and the person they are interacting with. The historical native language of Luxembourg is a Moselle Franconian High German dialect, which became Luxembourgish as it was standardized and made the national language of the country. Special thanks to Tom Weber for his Luxembourgish audio samples and helpful advice, and to Markus Doehr for his Standard German samples and helpful advice. Support Langfocus on Patreon: https://patreon.com/langfocus. Current patrons include these amazing people: AmateurTextualCriticism Andrew Doehler Auguste Fields Bennett Seacrist Bill Walderman Brian King Bruce C CFitz17 Chuck Davis Irina Bruce Italy Made Easy Jacob Madsen John Moffat Karl-Erik Wångstedt Kirk Kirkpatrick Michael Arbagi Michael Cuomo Michael J Synnott Mody Neil Sills Nobbi Lampe-Strang Paul Falstad Rosalind Resnick Ruben Sanchez Jr ShadowCrossZero Ulf Hermjakob Victoria Goh Vincent David Walter Moore Wolfgang Egon Schroder Yuko Sunda Aaron Chow Abdullah Al-Kazaz Adam Vanderpluym Aitona Al Fung Alana Kalinowski Aleksei Alen Alex McKenzie Ali Muhammed Alshehri Alice Amittai Aviram Andrew Woods Anthony Kinread Anthony Peter Swallow Aous Mansouri Ashley Dierolf Bartosz Czarnotta Ben Benjamin Tipton Billy Billy Brent Warner Brian Begnoche Bruce Stark chris brown Chris Shifman Christian Langreiter Christopher Lowell contumaciousCulimancer Cyrus Shahrivar Darek David Eggleston David Golub David LeCount Dean Cary Debbie Diana Fulger Diane Young DickyBoa Dina Trageser divad Divadrax Don Ross Donald Tilley Doug Drew Gatewood Edward Wilson Elijah Double Emilia Bruns Eric Loewenthal Eric Nutt Fabio Martini fatimahl frederick shiels G Bot George Shi Grace Wagner Grégoire Le Corre Guillaume Brodar Gustavo Villegas Henrik Flyvbjerg Herr K Howard Clark Hugh AULT Ihor Khodzhaniiazov Ina Mwanda IUVENIS J Choi James and Amanda Soderling James Lillis JAMES ORR Jay Bernard Jaye Ferrone Jens Aksel Takle Jesús Horacio Báez Ávila Jim McLaughlin JL Bumgarner Johannes John E. McLaughlin John Flanagan John Gavin John Hyaduck John Lloyd Jonathan Hutchins Josh Rotenberg Julie Sriken Kimball Pierce Konrad Konstantin Bredyuk KW Lance Bedasie Laura Morland Lee Dedmon Leo Barudi Lincoln Hutton Lissette Talledo Louie dela Fuente Luke Jensen m Manuel Rosales Margaret Langendorf Margrét Mark Mark Bonneaux Mark Judge Mark Kemp Markzipan Martin Blackwell Merrick Bobb MH Michael Regal Mike Frysinger Mohammed A. Abahussain Mário Pegado Naama and Geoff Shang Nicholas Gentry Nick Michaels Nicolas Elsishans Nicole VanderVoort Niro Ondra Oto Kohulák Patrick smith Patriot Nurse Paul Shutler Peter Andersson Peter Nikitin Peter Scollar piero Piri JAKAB VON SZENGELICE Raymond Thomas Richard Kelly Robert Brockway Roger Smith Roland Seuhs Ronald Brady Ryan Rubinstein S. P. Sergio Pascalin Sheila Perryman Sierra Rooney Sigbjørn Nerland Simon Blanchet SJWS Srga91 . Stefan Reichenberger Steven Severance Suzanne Jacobs Tara Pride Theophagous Thomas Chapel Thomas Gijsbers Tim Hopmann tommy dahill Tony DeSantis Tumble Bug Ty Ovendale Vinicius Marchezini Vitor Warren McKenzie William MacKenzie William O Beeman Yagub Alserkal Yeshar Hadi Yuriy Vrublevskiy Yuval Filmus Zachary Root zhangyimo Éric Martin Вайзефакнот ***** Images licensed from istock.com *** The following Creative Commons images were used in this video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deutscher_Bund.svg. Author: ziegelbrenner. CC BY SA 3.0 Unported license. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locator_County_of_Luxembourg_(1350).svg. Author: Sir lain. CC BY SA 3.0 Unported license. *** Outro music: “Elevator Ride” by JCSD, licensed from Storyblocks.com