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Icelandic ( / aɪsˈlændɪk / ⓘ eyess-LAN-dik; endonym: íslenska, pronounced [ˈistlɛnska] ⓘ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language. [2] Since it is a West Scandinavian language, it is most closely ...
Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity; A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe; Danish (name), a male given name and surname; Language. Danish language, a North Germanic language used mostly in Denmark and Northern Germany; Danish tongue or Old Norse, the parent language of all North Germanic languages; Food
Danish is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Denmark, where there are 5.46 million speakers, and by 6,200 people in Greenland, and 1,546 people in the Faroe Islands. There are also 39,500 Danish speakers in Sweden, 28,300 in the USA, 24,900 in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany, 21,000 in Norway, 12,600 in Canada, 10,000 in the UK, and smaller numbers in other countries.
The Danish language traces its roots back to the Iron Age, specifically to the Old East Norse dialect of the Old Norse language family. This early form of Danish was spoken by the inhabitants of what is now Denmark and parts of Sweden during the Viking Age, a period that stretched roughly from the late 8th century to the mid-11th century.
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Denmark (Danish: Danmark, pronounced ⓘ) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.It is the metropolitan part of and the most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Danish orthography is the system and norms used for writing the Danish language, including spelling and punctuation. Officially, the norms are set by the Danish language council through the publication of Retskrivningsordbogen . Danish currently uses a 29-letter Latin-script alphabet with an additional three letters: æ , ø and å .
