Language code: li

Technical information about ISO 639 language code li

The table below provides technical details for the Limburgish language, designated by the li code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

li

Name

Official

Limburgish

Native

Limburgs

Family
Germanic
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Northern LimburgishCentral LimburgishSouthern Limburgish
Related languages
DutchRipuarian GermanLuxembourgish
Key facts
Acts as a linguistic bridge between Dutch and GermanMany dialects use a pitch-accent system, rare in West GermanicNo single standard orthography, local spellings are commonSome speakers still mark grammatical cases in articles and pronounsVocabulary shows heavy borrowing from both German and French
Sample phrase

Haaj, hoe is 't?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Limburgish belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Germanic subgroup. It is mostly used by linguistic minority groups in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. It is written using the Latin script. It is estimated that there are more than 1.3 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Limburgish speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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