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Danish and English are both Germanic languages. Danish is a North Germanic language descended from Old Norse, and English is a West Germanic language descended from Old English. Old Norse exerted a strong influence on Old English in the early medieval period.
14 de may. de 2024 · Danish belongs to the East Scandinavian branch of North Germanic languages. It began to separate from the other Scandinavian languages, to which it is closely related, about ad 1000. The oldest Danish records are runic inscriptions (c. ad 250–800) found from Jutland to southern Sweden; the earliest manuscripts in Danish date from ...
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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.
These languages are usually divided into East Scandinavian (Danish and Swedish) and West Scandinavian (Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese) groups. History of Old Scandinavian. About 125 inscriptions dated from ad 200 to 600, carved in the older runic alphabet (futhark), are chronologically and linguistically the oldest evidence of any Germanic ...
6 de sept. de 1999 · Their linguistic history begins to get interesting around 2000 B.C. when the first Indo-European immigrants, the “single-grave people,” take over Denmark, bringing their language with them. Since then, Danish has ranged from the language of the vast Viking empire to a language spoken only by the people in and around a small ...
Old Norse. Let's get back on track with Danish language history. After centuries, this Proto-Norse evolved into Old Norse, which linguists established happened around 800 CE, coinciding with the famous viking age. A distinction between Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish begin to appear.
Native name: dansk [ˈdanˀsɡ] Language family: Indo-European, Germanic, North Germanic, East Scandinavian, Continental Scandinavian. Number of speakers: c. 5.6 million. Spoken in: Denmark, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Germany, Sweden, Norway. First written: 9th century AD. Writing system: Runic script (9th-11th centuries) then the Latin alphabet.
