Editing Luxembourgish (section)

===Standardisation===
A number of proposals for standardising the [[orthography]] of Luxembourgish can be documented, going back to the middle of the 19th century. There was no officially recognised system until the adoption of the "OLO" ({{lang|lb|ofizjel lezebuurjer ortografi}}) on 5 June 1946.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.legilux.public.lu/leg/a/archives/1946/0400709/index.html |title=''Mémorial A'' no. 40 (7 September 1946), pp. 637–41: "Arrêté ministériel du 5 juin 1946 portant fixation d'un système officiel d'orthographe luxembourgeois" |access-date=15 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050426112604/http://www.legilux.public.lu/leg/a/archives/1946/0400709/index.html |archive-date=26 April 2005 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This orthography provided a system for speakers of all varieties of Luxembourgish to transcribe words the way they pronounced them, rather than imposing a single, standard spelling for the words of the language. The rules explicitly rejected certain elements of German orthography ({{abbr|e.g.|for example}}, the use of {{angbr|[[ä]]}} and {{angbr|[[ö]]}},<ref>"Et get kèèn '''ä''' geshriven. [...] Et get kèèn '''ö''' geshriven." (p. 639)</ref> the capitalisation of nouns). Similarly, new principles were adopted for the spelling of French loanwords.
* {{lang|lb|fiireje}}, {{lang|lb|rééjelen}}, {{lang|lb|shwèzt}}, {{lang|lb|veinejer}} (cf. German {{wikt-lang|de|vorigen}}, ''{{Wikt-lang|de|Regeln}}'', ''{{Wikt-lang|de|schwätzt}}'', ''{{Wikt-lang|de|weniger}}'')
* {{lang|lb|bültê}}, {{lang|lb|âprê}}, {{lang|lb|Shaarel}}, {{lang|lb|ssistém}} (cf. French ''{{Wikt-lang|fr|bulletin}}'', ''{{Wikt-lang|fr|emprunt}}'', ''{{Wikt-lang|fr|Charles}}'', ''{{Wikt-lang|fr|système}}'')
This proposed orthography, so different from existing "foreign" standards that people were already familiar with, did not enjoy widespread approval.

A more successful standard eventually emerged from the work of the committee of specialists charged with the task of creating the ''Luxemburger Wörterbuch'', published in 5 volumes between 1950 and 1977. The orthographic conventions adopted in this decades-long project, set out in Bruch (1955), provided the basis of the standard orthography that became official on 10 October 1975.<ref>''Mémorial B'' no. 68 (16 November 1976), pp. 1365–90: "Arrêté ministériel du 10 octobre 1975 portant réforme du système officiel d'orthographe luxembourgeoise". https://www.cpll.lu/pdf/ortho_1975.pdf</ref> Modifications to this standard were proposed by the ''[[Conseil permanent de la langue luxembourgeoise|Permanent Council of the Luxembourguish language]]'' and adopted officially in the spelling reform of 30 July 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.legilux.public.lu/leg/a/archives/1999/1121108/index.html |title=''Mémorial A'' no. 112 (11 August 1999), pp. 2040–8: "Règlement grand-ducal du 30 juillet 1999 portant réforme du système officiel d'orthographe luxembourgeoise". |access-date=15 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051103181556/http://www.legilux.public.lu/leg/a/archives/1999/1121108/index.html |archive-date=3 November 2005 |url-status=dead }}</ref> A detailed explanation of current practice for Luxembourgish can be found in Schanen & Lulling (2003).