| Also Known As: Dansk,Danish,Sjaelland,Central Danish,Dänisch
Description:
Danish (dansk, pronounced [d̥ænsɡ̊]( listen)) is one of the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages), a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages. It is spoken by around 6 million people, mainly in Denmark; the language is also used by the 50,000 Danes in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany where it holds the status of minority language. Danish also holds official status and is a mandatory subject in school in the Danish territory of the Faroe Islands. In Iceland, Danish is also taught as a compulsory foreign language in schools. There are also Danish language communities in Argentina, Greenland (where it was a mandatory subject in schools until 2009), the U.S. and Canada.
Danish, together with Swedish, derives from the East Norse dialect group, while Norwegian is classified as a West Norse language together with Faroese and Icelandic. A more recent classification based on mutual intelligibility separates modern spoken Danish, Norwegian and Swedish into a Mainland Scandinavian group while Icelandic and Faroese are placed in a separate category labeled Insular Scandinavian.
Written Danish and Norwegian Bokmål are..... full article at Wikipedia |
