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Countries

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

53
0 46
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National Language

Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire

Speaking Continents

Europe, North America, South America
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Regulated By

Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)

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.
  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.

Similar To

Norwegian and Swedish
Armenian

Derived From

Old Norse Language
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2924
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

207
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2017
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic, 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 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hallo
γεια σας (geia sas)

Thank You

Mange tak
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)

How Are You?

Hvordan har du det?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)

Good Night

God nat
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)

Good Evening

God aften
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)

Good Afternoon

God eftermiddag
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)

Good Morning

God morgen
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)

Please

Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)

Sorry

Undskyld!
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)

Bye

Farvel
αντίο (antío)

I Love You

Jeg elsker dig
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)

Excuse Me

Undskyld mig
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Scanian
Cappadocian Greek

Where They Speak

Sweden
Greece

How Many People Speak

80,000.002,800.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Jutlandic
Griko

Where They Speak

Denmark
Italy

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.0050,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Bornholmsk
Mariupol

Where They Speak

Island of Bornholm
Ukraine

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

425
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.50 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.18 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.50 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million13.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

dansk
ελληνικά

Alternative Names

Dansk, Rigsdansk
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic

French Name

danois
grec moderne (après 1453)

German Name

Dänisch
Neugriechisch

Pronunciation

[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
[eliniˈka]

Ethnicity

Danish people or Danes
Greeks or Hellenes

History

Origin

c. 1100 AD
1500 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Hellenic

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek

Standard Forms

Rigsdansk
Modern Greek

Language Position

1874
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Danish
Greek Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

da
el

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

dan
ell

ISO 639 2/B

dan
gre

ISO 639 3

dan
ell

ISO 639 6

dan
ells

Glottocode

dani1284
gree1276

Linguasphere

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

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic

Danish and Greek Alphabets

Danish and Greek Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Danish and Greek. In Danish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Greek Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Danish and Greek languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Danish and Greek 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 Greek greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Danish and Greek are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Danish and Greek Speaking population

Danish and Greek speaking population is one of the factors based on which Danish and Greek languages can be compared. The total count of Danish and Greek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Danish language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 %. 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 Greek on Danish vs Greek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Danish and Greek Language Codes

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