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The Danish ethnic minority in Southern Schleswig, Germany, has existed by this name since 1920, when the Schleswig Plebiscite split German-ruled Schleswig into two parts: Northern Schleswig with a Danish majority and a German minority was united with Denmark, while Southern Schleswig remained a part of Germany and had a German majority and ...
Schleswig Party election poster in 1939. The Schleswig Party (Danish: Slesvigsk Parti, German: Schleswigsche Partei) is a regional political party in Denmark representing the North Schleswig Germans and the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig. Flag of the Germans of Northern Schleswig, Denmark. Flag of the Danes of Southern Schleswig, Germany.
South Schleswig Voters' Association (1 C) Pages in category "Danish minority of Southern Schleswig" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Flensborg Avis is a Danish language daily newspaper, published in Flensburg (Danish: Flensborg), Germany. It regularly cooperates with Flensburger Tageblatt , a German majority newspaper in the city, and Der Nordschleswiger , a German minority newspaper published in Denmark .
Bund Deutscher Nordschleswiger estimates the current number of North Schleswig Germans to be around 15,000, [5] i.e. around 6% of the North Schleswig population of c. 250,000. This is a far smaller group than the 50,000 Danes who live in Southern Schleswig, where, for instance, Flensborg Avis, a newspaper in Danish, is printed every day.
Learn Danish banner in Flensburg, one of the major cities of Southern Schleswig. Besides Standard German, Low Saxon dialects (Schleswigsch) are spoken, as well as Danish (Standard Danish or South Schleswig Danish) and its South Jutlandic variant, plus North Frisian in the west. [11] Danish and North Frisian are official minority languages.
Southern Schleswig Danish (Danish: Sydslesvigdansk, German: Südschleswigdänisch) is a variety of the Danish language spoken in Southern Schleswig in Northern Germany.It is a variety of Standard Danish (rigsmål, rigsdansk) influenced by the surrounding German language in relation to prosody, syntax and morphology, used by the Danish minority in Southern Schleswig.
The Danish minority in Flensburg (Danish: Flensborg) and the surrounding towns runs its own schools, libraries, and Lutheran churches, from which the German majority is not excluded. These two groups' coexistence is considered a sound and healthy symbiosis. A form of mixed Danish–German, Petuh, is used on the ferries.