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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 ...
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.
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.
North Schleswig and other German territories lost in both World Wars are shown in black, present-day Germany is marked dark grey on this 1914 map. The northern Zone I voted en bloc, i.e. as a unit with the majority deciding, and the result was 75% for Denmark and 25% for Germany, consequently resulting in a German minority north of the new ...
The visit of Schleswig-Holstein and the Danish minority will mark the end of the 2-day visit of the Danish Royal Couple to Germany. (Photo by Gregor Fischer/Getty Images)
The paper represents the Danish minority in Southern Schleswig. [1] [2] The headquarters of the paper is in Flensburg [3] and there are local editorial offices in the towns of Schleswig (Slesvig), Husum and Niebüll (Nibøl). [1] The paper is published in Berliner format six times per week. [1]
The Danish placenames in Southern Schleswig are used by the local Danish minority and their media, while some in Denmark may avoid using them for political reasons. The use of German placenames in North Slesvig is similarly preferred by the local German minority (when speaking and writing German), but traditionally shunned by many Danes in the ...
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.