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Luxembourgish[edit]
Luxembourgish is a German dialect [1]. Braganza (talk) 06:51, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
- Depends on which linguist you ask. As is elaborated on in en:Luxemburgish language, it fulfills all parameters used by many linguists to differentiate a "dialect" from a "language" (although it is technically impossible in many cases). It is unintelligible to a Standard German speaker who is not from the border area to Luxembourg (trust me). It has its own regulatory body, regulating both its orthography and pronunciation. It is the official language of an independent nation. HOWEVER, there is no "hard" linguistic border between the adjacent west German dialects and Luxembourgish, rather it is a fluent continuum. Still, according to most, that's enough to call it a separate, yet closely related language. --37ophiuchi (talk) 12:22, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
Belgium[edit]
German is not an official language in Belgium outside the German-speaking area. Like for Switzerland the non German-speaking areas should not be coloured.Nicob1984 (talk) 10:42, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
- All three languages (French, Dutch, German) have certain federal rights in Belgium. Government forms may be requested in any of those three anywhere in Belgium (I can get a marriage license in German in Antwerp or a birth certificate in Dutch in Liege). Official federal texts (most of them) from Brussels are published in all three languages. So while German is not the majority language outside the German-speaking community, it has certain federal rights in the entire country; all three languages are country-wide administrative languages whenever federal matters are concerned. (http://www.senate.be/deutsch/const_de.html#t1) --37ophiuchi (talk) 12:15, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
- This is true, but also for Switzerland. And in Switzerland, German is the co-official language of the majority. According to the coloring of Belgium, Switzerland should be colored completely in yellow, I suppose. But then we loose the possibility to color some cantons in red and cannot differentiate anymore, but it would be more coherent. Or there is even another color to show that the language is occifial on the federal level, as in Belgium. Or we take the f"federal" color as dashed. But the actual solution is not true, as also in French-speaking cantons, which are now grey, German rests a official language on the federal level, and in the Flemish and Brussels region of Belgium, German has no status except on the federal level. Salut, --Goris (talk) 10:05, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
- I agree // Ich bin derselben Meinung. --2A0C:D242:3803:2500:895B:8C5F:D959:3C9A 08:23, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- This is true, but also for Switzerland. And in Switzerland, German is the co-official language of the majority. According to the coloring of Belgium, Switzerland should be colored completely in yellow, I suppose. But then we loose the possibility to color some cantons in red and cannot differentiate anymore, but it would be more coherent. Or there is even another color to show that the language is occifial on the federal level, as in Belgium. Or we take the f"federal" color as dashed. But the actual solution is not true, as also in French-speaking cantons, which are now grey, German rests a official language on the federal level, and in the Flemish and Brussels region of Belgium, German has no status except on the federal level. Salut, --Goris (talk) 10:05, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
