Jérôme Lulling
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Jérôme Lulling is a
Luxembourg Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France on the south. Its capital and most populous city, Luxembour ...
ish linguist who has been a leading figure in preservation and educational efforts relating to the
Luxembourgish Luxembourgish ( ; also ''Luxemburgish'', ''Luxembourgian'', ''Letzebu(e)rgesch''; ) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 400,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide. The language is standardized and officiall ...
language, a
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that has been recognized as the national language of Luxembourg since 1984 and is spoken by approximately 600,000 people worldwide. His initial contributions to enhancing the language took place between 2000 and 2002, when he compiled the language’s first computer spellchecker as part of his Ph.D. dissertation at the Université Paul Valéry de Montpellier. The spellchecker, which consisted of 125,000 words, was known as Projet C.ORT.IN.A. Lulling, working in partnership with fellow linguists François Schanen and Manfred Peters, compiled and edited the first Luxembourgish-French dictionary, ''Dictionnaire Bilingue Français-Luxembourgeois'', which was published in 2005. The text consisted of 48,000 translated words and phrases. Lulling is also the co-author of Luxdico, the Luxembourgish online dictionary. He has also co-authored two academic papers relating to Luxembourgish: ''Eng Kleng Hëllef fir Lëtzebuergesch ze schreiwen'' (2001). and ''Introduction à l’orthographe luxembourgeoise''. In 2011 Lulling published a DVD to learn Luxembourgish called 'LuxDVD - learning luxembourgish with videos'. He is the nephew of politician
Astrid Lulling Astrid Lulling (born 11 June 1929, in Schifflange) is a Luxembourgish politician. She was a Member of the European Parliament (1965–1974 and 1989–2014) for the Christian Social People's Party, part of the European People's Party. Positions ...
, who served as a
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from 1965 to 1974 and from 1989 to 2014, with whom he has co-authored Luxembourgish learning material.


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www.JeromeLulling.lu
official homepage
Luxdico.com
online translation dictionary French - luxembourgish (Lulling/Schanen) (2003- )
www.Bonjour.lu
videoclips to learn luxembourgish with Astrid and Jérôme Lulling {{DEFAULTSORT:Lulling, Jerome Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Linguists from Luxembourg