Luxembourgish interpreting for the rare case where a speaker's exact words are the point, and certified translation of Luxembourg records that usually arrive in French.
Prism Linguistics arranges Luxembourgeois interpreters for depositions, court hearings and USCIS interviews across the United States, in person, by phone or by video, and provides certified English translation of Luxembourg civil records, most of which are issued in French rather than in the national language.
Last reviewed September 2, 2026 by Sarah J, Prism Linguistics
Luxembourgeois, or Luxembourgish, is the national language of a country that runs its public life in three. That single fact shapes almost every request we take. A younger adult from Luxembourg moves between Luxembourgeois, French and German and seldom needs an interpreter at all; the person who does is older, or is a witness whose precise words in Luxembourgeois are what a court has to weigh. Our office is in New York and the linguist works from wherever the matter is, most often over a video link.
The 2000 census counted roughly 45,000 Americans who trace their descent to Luxembourg, settled mainly across Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, and the language lingers in a handful of those families rather than as a working community tongue. So a Luxembourgeois interpreter is a specialist booking, not a routine one. When it is needed, it is needed exactly, and a near-enough substitute causes more trouble than it saves.
A German interpreter is not a stand-in. Luxembourgeois is a Moselle Franconian variety of West Central German, so a German speaker follows the sense of it and loses the French-borrowed vocabulary that a transcript argument usually turns on. Where the dispute is about what a person actually said, that gap is the whole case. We assign a Luxembourgeois speaker and keep German for German.
No state runs a certification exam for court interpreters in Luxembourgeois, so a court works from a qualified interpreter and the assignment is almost always remote, since there is no local pool anywhere in the country. Courts reach us for languages like this precisely because no one else can supply them. We take instructions from judges, attorneys and law firms, and we are straight about our standing: Prism is a private agency and holds no court appointment.
Depositions are where the language earns its keep. A recorded conversation in Luxembourgeois, or a witness whose exact phrasing is contested, needs rendering rather than paraphrase, and an approximate German reading will not survive opposing counsel checking it. We put a Luxembourgeois speaker on the transcript, render what was said, and flag anything that hinges on a word borrowed from French, because that is where the meaning often sits.
Immigration work in Luxembourgeois is uncommon, but it happens: an elderly applicant more at home in the national language than in French or German, or a family member giving evidence at an interview. The officer weighs the answer as it is given, so the interpreter renders it and adds nothing. We do not seat a relative in the interpreter's chair, and we brief for a plain rendering rather than a helpful one.
Check the language before ordering a Luxembourgeois translation, because most Luxembourg paperwork is not in Luxembourgeois. The civil registers are kept in French, with older entries in German or Latin, so a birth extract, a marriage extract or a court judgment from Luxembourg is a French document that happens to carry Luxembourgeois names and place names. The certified translation a client asks for as Luxembourgeois is usually a French one, and we say so before quoting rather than after.
Where a paper really is in the national language, a private letter or a will drafted in Luxembourgeois, we translate that text itself. Going the other direction, a US record headed for a Luxembourg authority rarely needs a Luxembourgeois version at all, since the country accepts documents translated into French, German, English or Luxembourgeois. Every translation carries a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy with names set to the passport. The full document service sits at certified translation.
Tell us the date, the city and the setting, or send a clear scan of the document. We reply with a fixed price and, for interpreting, a named linguist. Call +1 (833) 282 8883, email info@prismlinguistics.com, or use the quote form and you will hear back within 60 minutes during business hours.
Our only office is in New York, and our Luxembourgeois interpreters work nationwide. For in-person work we assign someone based in or near the city. These are the areas where Luxembourgeois work is concentrated; the full list of 288 cities is below it.
Prism Linguistics is rated 4.6 out of 5 across 67 client reviews for its interpreting and translation work in the United States. That is the company-wide figure; we do not publish a separate rating per language because there is no honest way to measure one. If a Luxembourgeois assignment ever falls short, tell us and we put it right.