d'Orthographie
[ɔʀtoɡʀɑfˈiː]
the spelling
Good to know
Official spelling of 1975, revised in 1999 and again in 2019.
Taught in C2 · Varieties and history of the language
Where Luxembourgish comes from, how it was standardised, its French and German layers, and the rule that governs the final n.
Other words in this lesson
- Muselfränkesch — Moselle Franconian
- d'Éislek — the Ösling (the north)
- de Minett — the south (the iron-ore region)
- d'Musel — the Moselle (the east)
- d'Koiné — the common standard variety
- de Zenter fir d'Lëtzebuerger Sprooch (ZLS) — the state language centre
- de LOD — Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire
- Eifeler Regel — the n-deletion rule
- d'Friemwuert — the loanword / foreign word
- d'Etymologie — etymology
- Äddi (← adieu), Merci, Trottoir, Velo, Camion, Portmonni, Forschett — everyday words borrowed from French
- de Sproochwandel — language change
- d'Standardsprooch — the standard language
- d'Sproochpolitik — language policy
- d'Méisproochegkeet — multilingualism
- d'Aussprooch — pronunciation
- de Wuertschatz — vocabulary
- d'Betounung — stress
- de Vokal / de Konsonant — vowel / consonant
- kodifizéieren — to codify
- ofleeden — to derive