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Modern Standard Danish has around 20 different vowel qualities. These vowels are shown below in a narrow transcription. /ə/ and /ɐ/ occur only in unstressed syllables and thus can only be short. Long vowels may have stød, thus making it possible to distinguish 30 different vowels in stressed syllables.
The former digraph aa still occurs in personal names, and in Danish geographical names. In Norway, geographical names tend to follow the current orthography, meaning that the letter å will be used. Family names may not follow modern orthography, and therefore retain the digraph aa where å would be used today.
In two consecutive vowels the stressed vowel is always long and the unstressed is always short. The letters c, q, w, x, z are not used in the spelling of native words. Therefore, the phonemic interpretation of letters in loanwords depends on the donating language. However, Danish tends to preserve the original spelling of loanwords.
Danish is a Germanic language of the North Germanic branch. Other names for this group are the Nordic [14] or Scandinavian languages. Along with Swedish, Danish descends from the Eastern dialects of the Old Norse language; Danish and Swedish are also classified as East Scandinavian or East Nordic languages. [15] [16]
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Danish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Danish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Arguably the most acoustically striking differences in vowels are that: In Danish, the grapheme a corresponds, in most contexts, to the pronunciation of a front, often even open-mid front vowel ([æ]), closer to the English short a. In Norwegian and Swedish, a is invariably an open back vowel [ɑ]. Example: Danish bane versus Norwegian bane ...
Pages in category "Danish masculine given names" The following 194 pages are in this category, out of 194 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aage;
Dania (Latin for Denmark) is the traditional linguistic transcription system used in Denmark to describe the Danish language. It was invented by Danish linguist Otto Jespersen and published in 1890 in the Dania, Tidsskrift for folkemål og folkeminder magazine from which the system was named.