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Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
5 10

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
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Alphabets
29 11

Phonology

How Many Vowels
20 17

How Many Consonants
20 10

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks 6

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 80

Dialect 2
Jutlandic

Where They Speak
Denmark

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00 44

Dialect 3
Bornholmsk

Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00 34

Total No. Of Dialects
4 4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.50 million 70

Speaking Population
0.07 % 58

Native Speakers
5.50 million 63

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million 47

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 16

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

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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 20 vowels and 20 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.

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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: Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland.

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: Danish is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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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: Hallo
  • Thank you: Mange tak
  • Good Morning: God morgen
  • Good Evening: God aften
  • Good Afternoon: God eftermiddag

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.

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