According to Patrick Kaell, Luxembourg needs to promote its native language. As the secretary of "Actioun Lëtzebuergesch" explained during a convention on Saturday, more children need to speak the language.
During the meeting, discussions also revolved around Luxembourg's language law and the country's peculiar linguistic situation. 35 years ago, officials signed the national language law.
According to this law, Luxembourg does not have an official language per se but instead equally recognizes French, German and Luxembourgish as administrative and juristic languages.
However, some parts of the law do not sit well with the association. They for example hope to amend or replace article 4 in order to do justice to the evolution of the Luxembourgish language.
Government websites should also always be available in several languages including Luxembourgish, and streets should be named after characteristic local landscape features, they proposed.
Last year, the state council named Marc Barthelemy commissioner for the Luxembourgish language. One of his main duties is to devise and implement a 20-year language plan revolving around the Luxembourgish language.
