1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe, North America, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Norwegian and Swedish
1.10 Derived From
Old Norse Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Hallo
3.2 Thank You
Mange tak
3.3 How Are You?
Hvordan har du det?
3.4 Good Night
God nat
3.5 Good Evening
God aften
3.6 Good Afternoon
God eftermiddag
3.7 Good Morning
God morgen
3.8 Please
Please
3.9 Sorry
Undskyld!
3.10 Bye
Farvel
3.11 I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
3.12 Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Scanian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Sweden
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
80,000.00
Rank: 43 (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Jutlandic
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Denmark
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.50 million
Rank: 70 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
5.50 million
Rank: 63 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
dansk
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Dansk, Rigsdansk
5.3.4 French Name
danois
5.3.5 German Name
Dänisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
5.5 Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes
6 History
6.1 Origin
c. 1100 AD
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
6.3.3 Language Position
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1
120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Danish
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
da
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
dan
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
dan
7.3 ISO 639 3
dan
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
dani1284
7.6 Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional