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Countries

Countries

Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

57
0 46
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National Language

Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Europe, North America, South America
Europe

Minority Language

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Norwegian and Swedish
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

Old Norse Language
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2926
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

2010
0 32
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How Many Consonants

209
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hallo
hallo

Thank You

Mange tak
Danke

How Are You?

Hvordan har du det?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

God nat
gute Nacht

Good Evening

God aften
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

God eftermiddag
guten Tag

Good Morning

God morgen
guten Morgen

Please

Please
bitte

Sorry

Undskyld!
Verzeihung

Bye

Farvel
Tschüs

I Love You

Jeg elsker dig
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Undskyld mig
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Scanian
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Sweden
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

80,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Jutlandic
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Denmark
Germany

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Bornholmsk
Texas German

Where They Speak

Island of Bornholm
Texas

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

428
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.50 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.50 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

dansk
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Dansk, Rigsdansk
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

danois
allemand

German Name

Dänisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Danish people or Danes
Germans

History

Origin

c. 1100 AD
6th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
No early forms

Standard Forms

Rigsdansk
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

189
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Danish
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

da
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

dan
deu

ISO 639 2/B

dan
ger

ISO 639 3

dan
deu

ISO 639 6

dan
deus

Glottocode

dani1284
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic

Danish and German Alphabets

Danish and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Danish and German. In Danish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Danish and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Danish and German 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 German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Danish and German are Most Spoken Languages.

All Danish and German 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 German dialects. Various dialects of Danish and German language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Danish are spoken in different Danish Speaking Countries whereas German Dialects are spoken in different German speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Danish vs German Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Danish dialects include: Scanian, Jutlandic. German dialects include: Swiss German , Swabian German. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Danish and German Speaking population

Danish and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Danish and German languages can be compared. The total count of Danish and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Danish language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Danish vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Danish and German Language Codes

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