Delano.lu, 10.08.22
The “About… Languages in Luxembourg” brochure has a new layout for its 2022 edition. The brochure details the origins and development of multilingualism in the grand duchy.
The use of a number of languages in everyday life, such as politics, in the workplace, at school and in the media appears natural in Luxembourg nowadays. And that is in the roots of the country as French came to be an administrative language as a result of French occupation, under Louis XIV in 1684 and later under the Revolutionary troops in 1795. Italians settling in the south of Luxembourg between 1875 and 1910 brought another layer of multilingualism to the country while German was popular in the press back then. Read more....