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Luxembourgers
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Luxembourgers ( ; ) are a Germanic ethnic group native to their nation state of Luxembourg, where they make up around half of the population. They share the culture of Luxembourg and speak Luxembourgish, a West Germanic language.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Luxembourgers
- Ethnic group.native_name
- Lëtzebuerger
- Ethnic group.image
- File:Map of the Luxembourger Diaspora in the World.svg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Map of the Luxembourgish diaspora in the world (includes ancestry and Luxembourger citizens from other countries).
- Ethnic group.population
- 300,000 (2013)
- Ethnic group.regions
- 298,000 (2013)
- Ethnic group.languages
- Luxembourgish (L1)FrenchGerman (L2)
- Ethnic group.religions
- Predominantly Roman Catholicism
- Ethnic group.footnotes
- Upper estimate is merely a sum of all referenced figures given below. In 2013, 55.5% of the population of Luxembourg (537,039) declared sole Luxembourgish ethnic descent and nationally, while the remaining 45.5% were either of foreign descent or foreign nationals.
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Luxembourgers ( ; ) are a Germanic ethnic group native to their nation state of Luxembourg, where they make up around half of the population. They share the culture of Luxembourg and speak Luxembourgish, a West Germanic language.
Luxembourgers were, much like Austrians and some aspects of the Swiss historically considered to be a regional sub-group of ethnic Germans and viewed themselves as such until the collapse of the German Confederation. Luxembourg became independent, while remaining in personal union with the Netherlands, after the signing of the Treaty of London in 1839. The personal union proved short-lived as it was bilaterally and amicably dissolved in 1890.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Luxembourgers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.