- Danish is a Germanic language of the North Germanic branch. Other names for this group are the Nordic or Scandinavian languages. Along with Swedish, Danish descends from the Eastern dialects of the Old Norse language ; Danish and Swedish are also classified as East Scandinavian or East Nordic languages.
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Danish (/ ˈdeɪnɪʃ / (listen); dansk pronounced [ˈtænˀsk] (listen), dansk sprog [ˈtænˀsk ˈspʁɔwˀ]) is a North Germanic language spoken by about six million people, principally in Denmark, Greenland and in the region of Southern Schleswig in northern Germany, where it has minority language status.
- 6.0 million (2019)
- Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)
Danish is the Germanic language spoken in Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and parts of Greenland and Germany (Southern Schleswig). Around 5.5 million people speak Danish. It is used as a second language in Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The Danish people, or Danes, call their language dansk.
- 5.6 million (2007)
- Denmark, Greenland, Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)
- Indo-European, GermanicNorth GermanicEast ScandinavianDanish
- [d̥anˀsɡ̊]
The Danish language developed during the Middle Ages out of Old East Norse, the common predecessor of Danish and Swedish. It was a late form of common Old Norse. The Danish philologist Johannes Brøndum-Nielsen divided the history of Danish into "Old Danish" from 800 AD to 1525 and "Modern Danish" from 1525 and onwards.
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The Danish Wikipedia (Danish: Dansk Wikipedia) started on 1 February 2002 and is the Danish language edition of Wikipedia. As of 6 December 2020, it has 263,306 articles. Its article depth is 66.44 (as of October 2017), a bit below the median value, but the best of the Wikipedias in the Nordic countries.
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Although Danish never became the spoken language of the vast majority of the population, by the time Norway's ties with Denmark were severed in 1814, a Dano-Norwegian vernacular often called the "educated daily speech" [citation needed] had become the mother tongue of elites in most Norwegian cities, such as Bergen, Kristiania and Trondheim.