Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
National Language
Germany
  
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Old Norse Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Mange tak
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
God nat
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
God aften
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
God eftermiddag
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
God morgen
  
Please
bitte
  
Please
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
Undskyld!
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Farvel
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Jeg elsker dig
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Undskyld mig
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Scanian
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Jutlandic
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Denmark
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Bornholmsk
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Island of Bornholm
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
5.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
5.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
dansk
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
French Name
allemand
  
danois
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Dänisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Danish people or Danes
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
c. 1100 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Rigsdansk
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Signed Danish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
da
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
dan
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
dan
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
dan
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
dani1284
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional