Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Mange tak
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Hvordan har du det?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
God nat
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
God aften
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
God eftermiddag
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
God morgen
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Please
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Undskyld!
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Farvel
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Scanian
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Sweden
  
Nepal
  
Dialect 2
Jutlandic
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Denmark
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
5.50 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.50 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
dansk
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
danois
  
népalais
  
German Name
Dänisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
c. 1100 AD
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
  
Nepali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Danish
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
da
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
dan
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
dan
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
dan
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
dani1284
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative