Luxembourgish Translation Services

Prism Language Solutions translates Luxembourgish into English and English into Luxembourgish, and starts every order the same way: by checking what language your Luxembourg documents are actually written in. The civil registers there are kept in French, with older entries in German or Latin, so the certificate a client sends us as Luxembourgish is usually a French document. We say so before quoting, then translate what is in front of us with a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy.

Last reviewed September 12, 2026 by Sarah J, Prism Language Solutions

Luxembourg is a country that runs its public life in three languages at once. The law of 24 February 1984 made Luxembourgish the national language while leaving legislation to be drafted in French, and Luxembourgish, French and German all function in administration and in the courts. That arrangement decides what a translation order from Luxembourg looks like long before anyone picks up a document.

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Is Your Luxembourg Document Actually in Luxembourgish?

Almost certainly not, if it came from an office. Birth, marriage and death extracts from a Luxembourg commune are French documents. Court judgments are French. Notarial deeds are French. Anything from the nineteenth century or earlier may be German, and parish records from before civil registration are often Latin. The Luxembourgish names and place names printed on those pages do not change what language the document is in.

We read the scans before pricing anything, and if the answer is French we quote at French rates, which are lower than the rates for a language with a handful of available translators. That conversation costs us the premium and keeps the client. The matching pages are French translation and German translation, and for an old church entry see Latin translation.

Certified Luxembourgish Translation for USCIS and US Courts

Where a document genuinely is in Luxembourgish, it is usually something a person wrote rather than something an office issued: a will, a private letter, a diary, a note attached to a family record, a text message or a recording produced in a dispute. That material is translated in full and certified in the ordinary way, under the same rule as any other language, 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3), with a signed statement that the English version is complete and accurate.

Mixed documents are the common case rather than the exception. A French judgment quoting a witness in Luxembourgish, or a German-language record with Luxembourgish marginalia, needs a translator who reads both languages of the page and can say which is which. We identify each passage by its source language on the finished translation, because an attorney reading the file a year later will want to know. The format is set out at certified translation.

Why a German Translator Cannot Cover Luxembourgish Text

Luxembourgish is a Moselle Franconian variety of West Central German, close enough that a German speaker follows the drift of a sentence and misses the load-bearing words. Everyday Luxembourgish is dense with vocabulary borrowed from French, and in a contested document that is frequently where the meaning sits. A German reader will produce something fluent and slightly wrong, which is the worst possible result in a deposition exhibit.

There is also a spelling question. Luxembourgish acquired an official orthography relatively recently and informal writers ignore it cheerfully, so a handwritten letter mixes conventions and spells the same word two ways on one page. We assign a Luxembourgish speaker, not a German generalist, and note where a spelling is ambiguous rather than picking a reading and moving on.

Sending a US Document to Luxembourg: Luxembourgish or French?

Going the other way, a Luxembourgish translation is rarely what an authority in Luxembourg wants. The country's own institutions work in French, German and Luxembourgish, and English is widely accepted in practice, so an American certificate usually needs a French version or, sometimes, nothing more than the English original with an apostille. Tell us the receiving authority and what it has asked for, and we will prepare the version it will accept rather than the one the request happened to name.

Luxembourg has been a party to the Apostille Convention since 1979, and so is the United States, so a US document destined for Luxembourg is authenticated by an apostille from the issuing state's secretary of state rather than by consular legalization. See apostille translation.

Luxembourgish Translation and Interpreting Cost

Genuine Luxembourgish is priced as a rare language and quoted per job, because the translator pool is small and most items are short. French or German content in the same envelope is quoted at ordinary European rates, short certified pages from around $24.95 as a US market guide. Interpreting in Luxembourgish is occasional, usually a deposition where a recorded conversation or a witness's exact phrasing is in dispute, and it runs by video for want of a local pool anywhere in this country. No state certifies court interpreters in the language. Guide ranges are at pricing, and hearing work at court interpreting.

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