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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.
Danes (Danish: danskere, pronounced [ˈtænskɐɐ]), or Danish people, are an ethnic group and nationality native to Denmark and a modern nation identified with the country of Denmark. [27] This connection may be ancestral, legal, historical, or cultural.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Denmark: 5 34 39 0.55 5,924,220 151,903 23,100
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
Danish and English are spoken and taught; and all Greenlanders are Danish-Greenlandic bilinguals. Mexico : The government recognizes 62 indigenous languages, [ citation needed ] including Nahuatl , spoken by more than 1.5 million people and Aguacatec spoken by 27 people, along with Spanish.
Danish has adopted many German (particularly from Low German variants spoken by the Hanseatic League) words and grammatical structures, while Bokmål has rejected some of these imports. An example is the naming of countries; Danish and Swedish generally use the German names of countries, or at least the German ending.
Pages in category "Countries and territories where Danish is an official language" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Faroese, a North Germanic language like Danish, is the primary language of the Faroe Islands, a self-governing territory of the Kingdom. It is also spoken by some Faroese immigrants in mainland Denmark. Faroese is similar to Icelandic and retains many features of Old Norse, the source of all North Germanic languages.