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Countries

Countries

Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

54
0 46
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National Language

Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
Russia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Europe, North America, South America
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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.
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.

Similar To

Norwegian and Swedish
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

Old Norse Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2933
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

2010
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2021
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic

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
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

Mange tak
спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

Hvordan har du det?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

God nat
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

God aften
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

God eftermiddag
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

God morgen
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

Undskyld!
Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

Farvel
до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

Jeg elsker dig
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

Undskyld mig
извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Scanian
Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

Sweden
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

80,000.0030,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Jutlandic
Olonets

Where They Speak

Denmark
Olonets

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Bornholmsk
Novgorod

Where They Speak

Island of Bornholm
Novgorod

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

413
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.50 million276.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %2.33 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.50 million166.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

dansk
Русский

Alternative Names

Dansk, Rigsdansk
Russki

French Name

danois
russe

German Name

Dänisch
Russisch

Pronunciation

[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

Danish people or Danes
Russians

History

Origin

c. 1100 AD
1000 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

-
Slavic

Branch

-
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

Rigsdansk
Standard Russian

Language Position

187
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Danish
Signed Russian

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

da
ru

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

dan
rus

ISO 639 2/B

dan
rus

ISO 639 3

dan
rus

ISO 639 6

dan
rus

Glottocode

dani1284
russ1263

Linguasphere

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

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic

Danish and Russian Alphabets

Danish and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Danish and Russian. In Danish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Danish and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Danish and Russian 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 Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Danish and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Danish and Russian Speaking population

Danish and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Danish and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Danish and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Danish language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Danish vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Danish and Russian Language Codes

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