Editing Luxembourgish (section)

==History==
[[File:WIKITONGUES- Mark speaking Luxembourgish.webm|thumb|A Luxembourgish speaker, recorded in [[France]].]]
Luxembourgish was considered a German dialect like many others until about [[World War II]] but then the language underwent [[Abstand and ausbau languages|ausbau]], creating its own standard form in vocabulary, grammar, and spelling and therefore is seen today as an independent language. Luxembourgish managed to gain linguistic autonomy against a vigorous [[One Standard German Axiom]] by being framed as an independent language with a name rather than as a national [[Pluricentric language|pluricentric]] standard variety of German.

As Luxembourgish has a maximum of some 285,000<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fehlen |first=Fernand |title=Luxemburgs Sprachenmarkt im Wandel |url=https://orbilu.uni.lu/bitstream/10993/5665/1/RED12.pdf |publisher=uni.lu}}</ref> native speakers; resources in the language, like books, newspapers, magazines, television, internet, etc., are limited. Since most Luxembourgers also speak Standard German and French, there is strong competition with these languages, which both have large language resources. Because of this, the use of Luxembourgish remains limited.