Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Mange tak
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Hvordan har du det?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
God nat
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
God aften
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
God eftermiddag
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
God morgen
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Please
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Undskyld!
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Farvel
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Scanian
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Sweden
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Dialect 2
Jutlandic
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Denmark
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
5.50 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.50 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
dansk
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
Russki
  
French Name
danois
  
russe
  
German Name
Dänisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes
  
Russians
  
Origin
c. 1100 AD
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Danish
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
da
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
dan
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
dan
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
dan
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
dani1284
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic