Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
52
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
Nepal
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
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Norwegian and Swedish
Hindi
Derived From
Old Norse Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2948
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2012
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Hallo
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Mange tak
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Hvordan har du det?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
God nat
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
God aften
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
God eftermiddag
Good afternoon
Good Morning
God morgen
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Please
कृपया
Sorry
Undskyld!
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Farvel
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Scanian
Doteli
Where They Speak
Sweden
Nepal
How Many People Speak
80,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Jutlandic
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Denmark
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
412
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.50 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.50 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
dansk
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Dansk, Rigsdansk
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
danois
népalais
German Name
Dänisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
c. 1100 AD
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
Nepali
Language Position
1859
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Danish
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
da
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dan
nep
ISO 639 2/B
dan
nep
ISO 639 3
dan
npi
ISO 639 6
dan
nep
Glottocode
dani1284
nepa1254
Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative