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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.
Within the Danish Realm, Danish is the national language of Denmark and one of two official languages of the Faroe Islands (alongside Faroese). There is a Faroese variant of Danish known as Gøtudanskt. Until 2009, Danish was also one of two official languages of Greenland (alongside Greenlandic).
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 ...
The Danish language is the official language in Denmark. [1] In the Faroe Islands, the Faroese language and the Danish language are the official languages, and both must be taught in schools. Danish should be used in court, [1] but Faroese can be used in all other official places. [2]
The national language of the Faroe Islands is Faroese. The Faroese language is a Germanic language which is descended from Old Norse. Danish is the official second language. [2] Faroese is similar in grammar to Icelandic and Old Norse, but closer in pronunciation to Norwegian.
Danish is the de facto national language of Denmark. [194] Faroese and Greenlandic are the official languages of the Faroe Islands and Greenland respectively. [ 194 ] German is a recognised minority language in the area of the former South Jutland County (now part of the Region of Southern Denmark ), which was part of the German Empire prior to ...
Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French) Arabic (see also List of countries where Arabic is an official language): Algeria (with Berber) Bahrain; Chad (with French)
The North Germanic languages are national languages in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, whereas the non-Germanic Finnish is spoken by the majority in Finland. In inter-Nordic contexts, texts are today often presented in three versions: Finnish, Icelandic, and one of the three languages Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. [20]