Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
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.
  
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
Similar To
Norwegian and Swedish
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
Mange tak
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
Hvordan har du det?
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
God nat
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
God aften
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
God eftermiddag
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
God morgen
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
Please
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
Undskyld!
  
sorry
  
Bye
Farvel
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Scanian
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
Sweden
  
Netherlands
  
Dialect 2
Jutlandic
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Denmark
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
5.50 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
38
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.50 million
  
99+
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
dansk
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
danois
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Dänisch
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
c. 1100 AD
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
  
Standard Dutch
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Danish
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
da
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
dan
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
dan
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
dan
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
dani1284
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Synthetic