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Countries

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

75
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)

Interesting Facts

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

Similar To

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

Derived From

Albanian Languages
Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2629
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1020
0 32
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How Many Consonants

920
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Hallo

Thank You

Danke
Mange tak

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
Hvordan har du det?

Good Night

gute Nacht
God nat

Good Evening

guten Abend
God aften

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
God eftermiddag

Good Morning

guten Morgen
God morgen

Please

bitte
Please

Sorry

Verzeihung
Undskyld!

Bye

Tschüs
Farvel

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
Jeg elsker dig

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
Undskyld mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Scanian

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Sweden

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0080,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Jutlandic

Where They Speak

Germany
Denmark

How Many People Speak

820,000.006,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Bornholmsk

Where They Speak

Texas
Island of Bornholm

How Many People Speak

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

284
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million5.50 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million5.50 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million6.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
dansk

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Dansk, Rigsdansk

French Name

allemand
danois

German Name

Deutsch
Dänisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]

Ethnicity

Germans
Danish people or Danes

History

Origin

6th Century AD
c. 1100 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
-

Branch

Western
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish

Standard Forms

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

Language Position

918
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Signed Danish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
da

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
dan

ISO 639 2/B

ger
dan

ISO 639 3

deu
dan

ISO 639 6

deus
dan

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
dani1284

Linguasphere

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

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional

German and Danish Alphabets

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

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

German and Danish Speaking population

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

German and Danish Language Codes

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