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Danish language

NameDanish
Nativenamedansk
Pronunciation-dadanˀsɡ̊
StatesDenmark,
Faroe Islands,
Greenland,
Norway,
Sweden,
Iceland,
Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)
Speakersc. 6 million
ScriptDanish alphabet (Latin script)
FamilycolorIndo-European
Fam2Germanic
Fam3North Germanic
Fam4East Scandinavian
NationDenmark
Faroe Islands
 
Nordic Council ---- Minority language:
Germany
AgencyDansk Sprognævn (“Danish Language Committee”)
Iso1da|iso2=dan|iso3=dan|lingua=52-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
NoticeIPA

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Danish (dansk, -dadanˀsɡ̊pronDa-dansk is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language. Danish is a mandatory subject in school in the Danish crown territories of the Faroe Islands (where it is also an official language after Faroese) and Greenland (where, however, the only official language since 2009 is Kalaallisut), as well as the former crown holding of Iceland. There are also Danish language communities in Argentina, the U.S. and Canada. It is, to a considerable extent, mutually intelligible with the Norwegian Bokmål and to a lesser extent with Swedish.


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