Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
France
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, North America, South America
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
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.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
Mange tak
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
Hvordan har du det?
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
God nat
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
God aften
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
God eftermiddag
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
God morgen
  
Bonjour
  
Please
Please
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
Undskyld!
  
désolé
  
Bye
Farvel
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Scanian
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Sweden
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Jutlandic
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Denmark
  
Africa
  
Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
5.50 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.50 million
  
99+
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
dansk
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
Français
  
French Name
danois
  
français
  
German Name
Dänisch
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1100 AD
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
  
Standard French
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Danish
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
da
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
dan
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
dan
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
dan
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
dani1284
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic