Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
  
National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Roman Empire
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
  
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.
  
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  
Similar To
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Armenian
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
γεια σας (geia sas)
  
Thank You
Mange tak
  
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
  
How Are You?
Hvordan har du det?
  
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
  
Good Night
God nat
  
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
  
Good Evening
God aften
  
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
  
Good Afternoon
God eftermiddag
  
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
  
Good Morning
God morgen
  
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
  
Please
Please
  
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
  
Sorry
Undskyld!
  
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
  
Bye
Farvel
  
αντίο (antío)
  
I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
  
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
  
Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
  
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
  
Dialect 1
Scanian
  
Cappadocian Greek
  
Where They Speak
Sweden
  
Greece
  
Dialect 2
Jutlandic
  
Griko
  
Where They Speak
Denmark
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
  
Mariupol
  
Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
  
Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
5.50 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.50 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
dansk
  
ελληνικά
  
Alternative Names
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
  
French Name
danois
  
grec moderne (après 1453)
  
German Name
Dänisch
  
Neugriechisch
  
Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
[eliniˈka]
  
Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes
  
Greeks or Hellenes
  
Origin
c. 1100 AD
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Hellenic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
  
Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
  
Modern Greek
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Danish
  
Greek Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
da
  
el
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
dan
  
ell
  
ISO 639 2/B
dan
  
gre
  
ISO 639 3
dan
  
ell
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
ells
  
Glottocode
dani1284
  
gree1276
  
Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
56-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic