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Danish dialects. Map of main Danish dialect areas. The Danish language has a number of regional and local dialect varieties. [1] [2] These can be divided into the traditional dialects, which differ from modern Standard Danish in both phonology and grammar, and the Danish accents, which are local varieties of the standard language distinguished ...
Danish itself can be divided into three main dialect areas: Jutlandic (West Danish), Insular Danish (including the standard variety), and East Danish (including Bornholmian and Scanian). Under the view that Scandinavian is a dialect continuum, East Danish can be considered intermediary between Danish and Swedish, while Scanian can be considered ...
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Sep 1, 2015 · Check out all the different Danish dialects before you do! With a population of less than 6 million, Denmark is one of the more sparsely populated countries in the world. Because of this, you might expect that the Danish language — the sole official language of Denmark — would be relatively uniform across such a small population.
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Danish is the de facto national language of Denmark (Ethnologue). It is the national language of Greenland along Greenlandic Inuktitut, and a compulsory subject in primary schools on Faroe Islands. In addition, Danish is used by the Danish minority in Southern Schleswig, an area of Germany bordering Denmark, where it has the status of a protected m...
Danish is usually divided into two major dialect groups (Ethnologue). 1. Bornholmsk (Eastern Danish) 2. Sønderjysk (Southern Jutlandic) Standard Danish is based on Eastern Danish spoken in and around the capital of Copenhagen. It is spoken in the big cities, taught in schools, and used in the media. Since Denmark’s territory consists of many island...
Sound system
There are differences in pronunciation among the various dialects of Danish. The description below is based primarily on Standard Danish.
Grammar
Danish grammar is similar to the grammar of other Germanic languages, including English.
Vocabulary
Most Danish words are derived from Old Norse and Middle Low German. Later borrowings came from standard German, French and English. New words are formed by compounding, e.g., datamaskine ‘computer’ from data + maskine ‘machine,’ lufthavn ‘airport’ from luft ‘air’ + havn ‘port,’ fjernsyn ‘television’ from fjern ‘distant’ + syn ‘vision.’ A good example of compounding is found in Verdebserklaeringen ‘universal declaration’ and Menneskrrettighederne‘human rights.’ Below are a few common phrases a...
Jan 31, 2013 · In that way it still makes sense to speak of ”dialects” or ”regional dialects”, even if the differences are much smaller today. Let’s have a very rough look at the main ”regionalects”: Sjællandsk (Zealandic). Because of Copenhagen, this is standard Danish to most people.
Today, traditional Danish dialects have all but disappeared, though regional variants of the standard language exist. The main differences in language are between generations, with youth language being particularly innovative.
