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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

5
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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0 46

1.3 National Language

Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Europe, North America, South America

1.6 Minority Language

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America

1.7 Regulated By

Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
  • There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.

1.9 Similar To

Norwegian and Swedish

1.10 Derived From

Old Norse Language

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

29
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

20
Rank: 17 (Overall)
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0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

20
Rank: 10 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Hallo

3.2 Thank You

Mange tak

3.3 How Are You?

Hvordan har du det?

3.4 Good Night

God nat

3.5 Good Evening

God aften

3.6 Good Afternoon

God eftermiddag

3.7 Good Morning

God morgen

3.8 Please

Please

3.9 Sorry

Undskyld!

3.10 Bye

Farvel

3.11 I Love You

Jeg elsker dig

3.12 Excuse Me

Undskyld mig

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Scanian

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Sweden

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

80,000.00
Rank: 43 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Jutlandic

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Denmark

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Bornholmsk

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Island of Bornholm

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

4
Rank: 4 (Overall)
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0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

5.50 million
Rank: 70 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

5.50 million
Rank: 63 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

dansk

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Dansk, Rigsdansk

5.3.4 French Name

danois

5.3.5 German Name

Dänisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]

5.5 Ethnicity

Danish people or Danes

6 History

6.1 Origin

c. 1100 AD

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Old Danish, Early Modern Danish

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Rigsdansk

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms

Signed Danish

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

da

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

dan

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

dan

7.3 ISO 639 3

dan

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

dani1284

7.6 Linguasphere

5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Fusional

Know Alphabets in Danish

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Danish Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Danish Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Danish. Danish phonology gives Danish vowels and Danish consonants. There are 20 vowels and 20 consonants in Danish language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Danish is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Danish language is given in detail in this section.

All Danish countries

Want to explore all Danish countries? About Danish language serves you with all Danish Speaking Countries. Countries that use Danish as official language are called as Danish countries.

  • Countries that use Danish as their National Language are: Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Danish as second language are: Danish is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Danish greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Danish Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Danish language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Danish language.Learn Danish greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Hallo
  • Thank you: Mange tak
  • Good Morning: God morgen
  • Good Evening: God aften
  • Good Afternoon: God eftermiddag

All Danish Language Codes

Get to know all Danish language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Danish Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.