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The Kingdom of Denmark has only one official language, [3] Danish, the national language of the Danish people, but there are several minority languages spoken, namely Faroese, German, and Greenlandic .
16 de abr. de 2024 · Danish language, the official language of Denmark, spoken there by more than five million people. It is also spoken in a few communities south of the German border; it is taught in the schools of the Faroe Islands, of Iceland, and of Greenland. Danish belongs to the East Scandinavian branch of North Germanic languages.
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Though Danish ceased to be an official language in Iceland in 1944, it is still widely used and is a mandatory subject in school, taught as a second foreign language after English. No law stipulates an official language for Denmark, making Danish the de facto official language only.
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- Official Languages of Denmark
- Official Regional Languages of Denmark
- Minority and Foreign Languages of Denmark
Danish is the official language of the Kingdom of Denmark and is spoken by a majority of the people of this country. Danish is also the national language of the country. It is a North Germanic language that is spoken by about 6 million people, mainly Danes, and residents of Southern Schleswig in northern Germany, where Danish has the status of a mi...
Faroese
Another important minority language of Denmark is the Faroese. The language is spoken by the residents of the Faroe Islands, a self-governing Danish territory. The language is related to Icelandic and the Old Norse of the Scandinavian countries. Immigrants to mainland Denmark from the Faroe Islands also speak this language.
Greenlandic
Another self-governing territory of Denmark, Greenland hosts around 54,000 Inuits who speak the Greenlandic language. Nearly 7,000 immigrants of Greenland to mainland Denmark also speak this language.
English (86%), German (47%), and Swedish are the main foreign languages spoken in Denmak. German: German is the official minority language of a section of residents of the Region of Southern Denmark which was formerly known as the South Jutland County. The region was part of Germany before the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Of the 15,000 to 2...
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Danish is the official language in Denmark, and a co-official language with Faroese in the Faroe Islands. It is the statutory national working language in Greenland, and the statutory language of provincial identity in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Over 98% of the population speak Danish. German is recognised as an official regional language in the Nord-Schleswig region that borders Germany, where it is spoken by 23,000 people, about 0.4% of the 5.2m Danish population. Greenlandic, an Inuit language, is spoken by 0.1% of the population.
Hace 3 días · This article covers principally the land and people of continental Denmark. However, the Kingdom of Denmark also encompasses the Faroe Islands and the island of Greenland, both located in the North Atlantic Ocean. Each area is distinctive in history, language, and culture.
