Editing Luxembourgish (section)

===Surrounding languages===
There is no distinct geographic boundary between the use of Luxembourgish and the use of other closely related High German dialects (for example, [[Lorraine Franconian]]); it instead forms a [[dialect continuum]] of gradual change.

Spoken Luxembourgish is relatively hard to understand for speakers of German who are generally not familiar with Moselle Franconian dialects (or at least other [[West Central German]] dialects). They can usually read the language to some degree. For those Germans familiar with Moselle Franconian dialects, it is relatively easy to understand and speak Luxembourgish as far as the everyday vocabulary is concerned.<ref name="Ammon, 2014"/> The large number of French loanwords in Luxembourgish may hamper communication about certain topics or with certain speakers (those who use many terms taken from French).