Danish language

E2734

North Germanic language natural language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Denmark and parts of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, closely related to Norwegian and Swedish.

Aliases (5)

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	North Germanic language → natural language →
branch	North Germanic languages →
closelyRelatedTo	Norwegian language → Swedish language →
developedFrom	Old East Norse →
family	Indo-European languages →
hasDialects	Bornholm dialect → Insular Danish → Jutlandic Danish → Standard Danish →
hasFeature	fixedStressOnFirstSyllableInMostWords → reductionOfUnstressedVowels → stød → voicedObstruentLenition →
historicalAncestor	Old Norse →
influencedBy	English language → French language → Low German → Middle Low German →
languageCodeISO639-1	da →
languageCodeISO639-2	dan →
languageCodeISO639-3	dan →
numberOfNativeSpeakersEstimate	around 5.5 million →
officialNameInDanish	dansk →
officialStatusIn	Denmark → Faroe Islands → Greenland →
partOfContinuum	Danish–Norwegian–Swedish dialect continuum →
primaryCountry	Denmark →
regulator	Danish Language Council →
spokenIn	Argentina → Canada → Denmark → Faroe Islands → Greenland → Iceland → Northern Germany → Norway → Sweden → United States →
standardVarietyBasedIn	Copenhagen →
subfamily	Germanic languages →
usedAsSecondLanguageBy	many residents of Faroe Islands → many residents of Greenland →
usesAlphabet	A–Z → Å → Æ → Ø →
writingDirection	left-to-right →
writingSystem	Latin alphabet →

Referenced by (20)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Danish language ("Standard Danish") → Danish language ("Jutlandic Danish") → Danish language ("Insular Danish") → Danish language ("Bornholm dialect") →	hasDialects
Bokmål → Swedish language →	closelyRelatedTo
Joachim → Nicholas →	hasLanguageOfUse
Danish Language Council →	appliesToLanguage
Riksmål →	closelyAlignedWith
Old East Norse ("Danish") →	developedInto
Norwegian language →	hasMutualIntelligibilityWith
Scanian dialect →	historicallyInfluencedBy
Norwegian language →	influencedBy
Elfdalian ("Danish") →	isRelatedTo
Danish Language Council ("Danish") →	languageOfWorkOrName
North Germanic languages ("Standard Danish") →	majorModernStandard
Faroese language →	relatedTo
ISO/IEC 8859-1 ("Danish") →	supportsLanguage
Latin alphabet →	writingSystemFor