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Countries

Countries

Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council

Total No. Of Countries

5
Rank: 10 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America

Regulated By

Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)

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.

Similar To

Norwegian and Swedish

Derived From

Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

29
Rank: 11 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

20
Rank: 17 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

20
Rank: 10 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hallo

Thank You

Mange tak

How Are You?

Hvordan har du det?

Good Night

God nat

Good Evening

God aften

Good Afternoon

God eftermiddag

Good Morning

God morgen

Please

Please

Sorry

Undskyld!

Bye

Farvel

I Love You

Jeg elsker dig

Excuse Me

Undskyld mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Scanian

Where They Speak

Sweden

How Many People Speak

80,000.00
Rank: 80 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Jutlandic

Where They Speak

Denmark

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.00
Rank: 44 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Bornholmsk

Where They Speak

Island of Bornholm

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.00
Rank: 34 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

4
Rank: 4 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.50 million
Rank: 70 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %
Rank: 58 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.50 million
Rank: 63 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million
Rank: 47 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

dansk

Alternative Names

Dansk, Rigsdansk

French Name

danois

German Name

Dänisch

Pronunciation

[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]

Ethnicity

Danish people or Danes

History

Origin

c. 1100 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-

Branch

-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Danish, Early Modern Danish

Standard Forms

Rigsdansk

Language Position

18
Rank: 16 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Danish

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

da

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

dan

ISO 639 2/B

dan

ISO 639 3

dan

ISO 639 6

dan

Glottocode

dani1284

Linguasphere

5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional

Know Alphabets in Danish

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Danish Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Danish Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Danish. Danish phonology gives Danish vowels and Danish consonants. There are vowels and consonants in Danish language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Danish is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Danish language is given in detail in this section.

All Danish countries

Want to explore all Danish countries? About Danish language serves you with all Danish Speaking Countries. Countries that use Danish as official language are called as Danish countries.

  • Countries that use Danish as their National Language are: .

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Danish as second language are: .

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Danish greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Danish Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Danish language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Danish language.Learn Danish greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello:
  • Thank you:
  • Good Morning:
  • Good Evening:
  • Good Afternoon:

All Danish Language Codes

Get to know all Danish language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Danish Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.