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Countries

Countries

Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan

Total No. Of Countries

55
0 46
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National Language

Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
China, Taiwan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil

Speaking Continents

Europe, North America, South America
Asia

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council

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.
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.

Similar To

Norwegian and Swedish
Japanese and Korean Languages

Derived From

Old Norse Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2926
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

2024
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2023
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hallo
您好 (Nín hǎo)

Thank You

Mange tak
谢谢 (Xièxiè)

How Are You?

Hvordan har du det?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)

Good Night

God nat
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)

Good Evening

God aften
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)

Good Afternoon

God eftermiddag
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)

Good Morning

God morgen
早安 (Zǎo ān)

Please

Please
请 (Qǐng)

Sorry

Undskyld!
遗憾 (Yíhàn)

Bye

Farvel
再见 (Zàijiàn)

I Love You

Jeg elsker dig
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)

Excuse Me

Undskyld mig
劳驾 (Láojià)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Scanian
Mandarin

Where They Speak

Sweden
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan

How Many People Speak

80,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Jutlandic
Wu

Where They Speak

Denmark
China, United States of America

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Bornholmsk
Yue

Where They Speak

Island of Bornholm
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

410
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.50 million1,051.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %16.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.50 million873.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million178.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

dansk
中文 (zhōngwén)

Alternative Names

Dansk, Rigsdansk
Zhongwen, Hanyu

French Name

danois
chinois

German Name

Dänisch
Chinesisch

Pronunciation

[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]

Ethnicity

Danish people or Danes
Han

History

Origin

c. 1100 AD
1250 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
No early forms

Standard Forms

Rigsdansk
Standard Chinese

Language Position

181
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Danish
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

da
zh

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

dan
zho

ISO 639 2/B

dan
chi

ISO 639 3

dan
zho

ISO 639 6

dan
zho

Glottocode

dani1284
sini1245

Linguasphere

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

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Analytic, Isolating

Danish and Chinese Alphabets

Danish and Chinese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Danish and Chinese. In Danish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Chinese Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Danish and Chinese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Danish and Chinese languages. The Danish phonology consist Danish vowels and Danish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Danish greetings vs Chinese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Danish and Chinese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Danish and Chinese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Danish and Chinese dialects. Various dialects of Danish and Chinese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Danish are spoken in different Danish Speaking Countries whereas Chinese Dialects are spoken in different Chinese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Danish vs Chinese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Danish dialects include: Scanian, Jutlandic. Chinese dialects include: Mandarin , Wu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Danish and Chinese Speaking population

Danish and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Danish and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Danish and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Danish language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Danish and Chinese on Danish vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Danish and Chinese Language Codes

Danish and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Danish and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.