According to this paper Luxembourg (today’s Luxembourg’s area) was a monolingual German speaking country essentially prior to 1843 and the biliguality is a pretty late development, see the visible abstract here:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/d...9420300.37/pdf
If we theoretically assume it to be applicable then it would not have been very singular in a German context. You had since the Middle Ages German and Czech intertwined in Bohemia and Moravia, you had German and Polish(/Kashubian) intertwined in Silesia and Westprussia, you had German and Lithuanian intertwined in East Prussia (including Memelland) and in historical Carinthia and Styria you had German and Slovenian intertwined kind of ever since. But I think besides German only Czech also had a status of an administrational language for some periods of time.
Well, everyone likes particularly the periods of time when he was more important. When you talk to educated Swedes it doesn't take long time till they are into "stormaktstiden" (the great power time period).
The latter (Arlon) I knew but the former not and I’ve not yet seen a map where that was made visible. Can tell where in the current Grand Duchy that was applicable? I've just seen maps like this:
Yes.
As the linked by me paper than would be totally wrong, do you have any source for that?
Yeah, wtf?
An ultimate self-Jean-Claude-isation!
What a fate of a once proud and important German country...
Very interesting data, thanks!
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