Reading in Luxembourgish

Although most of Daphne's school work is in German and French these days, they do still work on a bit of Luxembourgish most weeks.  It's one of Luxembourg's three official languages, after all!  Daphne must read this story tomorrow at school "with no mistakes."

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Luxembourgish isn't often written, but when it is, it looks like this:

What she's reading

It is often said that Luxembourgish is a dialect of German (but it's generally accepted that this is not polite to say to a native Luxembourger's face.)  To me as a monolingual foreigner, it sounds like a sort of soft German with some French thrown in, and looks like a combination of Dutch and German.

Just for fun, I typed a few of the words from the story into Google translate to see what came up as the "detected language."  Results:

iwwerall - Welsh

iwwerhieflech - German (but it said Afrikaans up until I finished typing it)

nogaang - Afrikaans

Kakiquetschen - German

Lektioun - Haitian Creole

virgeholl - Afrikaans

esou - Haitian Creole

héije - Bosnian (?!)

bliwwen - Welsh

Afrikaans is like Dutch, so I'll buy that.  Haitian Creole is sort of like French, I guess?  Welsh is…uh...

Anyway, I don't get many blog comments these days except for spam, so I thought it might be fun to solicit some this time.

Fellow foreigners: What does Luxembourgish sound like to you?  What does it look like to you?

Native Luxembourgers or fluent Luxies: how's Daphne doing?  Are you offended if people call Luxembourgish a dialect of German?  Have you ever been to Haiti!?!

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