- Jérôme Lulling
Jérôme Lulling is a linguist from
Luxembourg who has been a leading figure in preservation and educational efforts relating to theLuxembourgish language, a Germanic language that became one of Luxembourg’s three official languages in 1984 and spoken by 300,000 persons.Fact|date=September 2008Lulling’s 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. [ [http://www.bibnet.lu Projet CORTINA: Spellchecker fir d'Lëtzebuergescht - Lulling Jérôme Actes du Cycles de conférences Lëtzebuergesch Quo Vadis 2004 (61-78)] ] [ [http://www.ids-mannheim.de/pub/extern/eurogerm/eug20.html Ausarbeitung einer luxemburgischen Wörterliste für einen Spellchecker: Projekt CORTINA: Lulling Jérôme in Eurogermanistik Band 20 (2003)] ]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. [ [http://www.fundp.ac.be/recherche/publications/page_view/54484/ Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix] ] Lulling is also the co-author of Luxdico, the Luxembourgish online dictionary. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEn-3LtkFsw August 2, 2003, interview with RTL.lu Radio-Télé Lëtzebuerg (interview in Luxembourgish)] ]
Lulling has also co-authored two academic papers relating to Luxembourgish: "Eng Kleng Hëllef fir Lëtzebuergesch ze schreiwen" (2001). [ [http://www.men.public.lu/publications/periodiques/cen_numeros_speciaux/eng_kleng_hellef_letz_schreiwen/eng_kleng_version_web.pdf "Eng Kleng Hëllef fir Lëtzebuergesch ze schreiwen"] ] and "Introduction à l’orthographe luxembourgeoise" [ [http://www.cpll.lu/ortholuxs_l.html "Introduction à l’orthographe luxembourgeoise"] ]
References
External links
* [http://www.JeromeLulling.lu www.JeromeLulling.lu] official homepage
* [http://www.luxdico.com Luxdico.com] online translation dictionary french - luxembourgish (Lulling/Schanen) (2003- )
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