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Luxembourg being situated on the frontier between germanic and romanic languages, the place names may have diverging German, French or Luxembourgish versions.
Normally the Luxembourg place names that can be found on the road maps and official modern documents are the French ones. In older records the German names can be found frequently. Signposts at the entrance of villages and towns bear the French name and underneath in italics the Luxembourgish name in case it differs. The Luxembourg place names are those used by the Luxembourgers in everyday life. Frequently records abroad regarding emigrated Luxembourgers bear the place names in Luxembourgish language, as indicated by the Luxembourg speaker, usually more or less corrupted by a clerk not familiar with alien phonetics and spelling.
Luxembourg being situated on the frontier between germanic and romanic languages, the place names may have diverging German, French or Luxembourgish versions.
Normally the Luxembourg place names that can be found on the road maps and official modern documents are the French ones. In older records the German names can be found frequently. Signposts at the entrance of villages and towns bear the French name and underneath in italics the Luxembourgish name in case it differs. The Luxembourg place names are those used by the Luxembourgers in everyday life. Frequently records abroad regarding emigrated Luxembourgers bear the place names in Luxembourgish language, as indicated by the Luxembourg speaker, usually more or less corrupted by a clerk not familiar with alien phonetics and spelling.