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An old booklet my father dug out about the Jenisch (Jéinesch, jéinisch) dialect, also called lakerschmus. I scanned it in and give you a PDF with most of the contents. If this interferes in anyway with somebodies copyrights, please contact me. I just th… more »

Roger Medernach, teacher at the Lycée technique Ecole de Commerce et de Gestion and producer of Net-tv send me a comment in a previous post I wrote about the Jéinesch dialect, a secret language once spoken in several parts of Luxembourg city. Check it o… more »

zesummegesat vum Prof. Jos Tockertachelen = iessenbachelen = pissen, reenenbäikäntech = dobei sin, zesumme sin (mir hocken b. = mir sëtzen zesummen / Scheif b. = komm mi no / Span de b. = gëf uecht op den doBatz = Kaffibauen = e kritt Maches beaut = e g… more »

Jéinesch, Jenisch, Yeniche, Lakersprache, Lakerschmus or Lakermaud are all designations for an dead dialect once spoken in Luxembourg in the surroundings of Weimerkirch by a group of semi-criminal merchants referred to as Lompekréimer, meaning people th… more »