German-Luxembourger

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Since 1839 German-Luxembourger has been the name for the German-speaking (in the broadest sense) residents of the eastern "half" of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg .

This name was used to distinguish the German-speaking Luxembourgers from the neighboring Welsch Luxembourgers, who had belonged to the Belgian state as the province of Luxembourg since 1839 and are part of the Walloons .

Today, however, this name is no longer common, as it has been equated in Luxembourg with the German expansion efforts of the First World War since 1914 , although the Luxembourgers - linguistically speaking - are still speakers of a Moselle-Franconian dialect of German. At the beginning of the 1940s, the term German-Luxemburger was finally given up in favor of Luxembourger as a reaction to the western campaign of the German Wehrmacht . This is due to the experiences of the Luxembourgers in the Second World War . This was accompanied by the desire for clearer demarcation to the Reich Germans and finally the expansion of the Luxembourg language as the official language of Luxembourg with its own 1976 binding regulated spelling. Luxembourgish ( Lëtzebuergesch ) has been the national language of the Grand Duchy by law, alongside German and French, since 1984 .