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Jeppe Aakjær (10 September 1866 – 22 (23) April 1930) [1] [2] was a Danish poet and novelist, a member of the 'Jutland Movement' in Danish literature". [3] A regionalist, much of his writings was about his native Jutland. He was known for writings that reflected his concern for the impoverished and for describing rural existence.
Danish orthography is the system and norms used for writing the Danish language, including spelling and punctuation. Officially, the norms are set by the Danish language council through the publication of Retskrivningsordbogen. Danish currently uses a 29-letter Latin-script alphabet with an additional three letters: æ , ø and å .
A second book of Danish verse, translated by Charles Wharton Stork, (New York: American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1947) In Denmark I was born, translated by R. P. Keigwin, (Copenhagen: A. F. Høst, 1948) Songs from Denmark, translated by S. D. Rodholm, (Copenhagen: Det danske Selskab, 1988)
Danish grammar is either the study of the grammar of the Danish language, or the grammatical system itself of the Danish language. Danish is often described as having ten word classes: verbs, nouns, pronouns, numerals, adjectives, adverbs, articles, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. [ 1 ]
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.
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.
Many words originally derived from Latin roots retain c in their Danish spelling, for example Norwegian sentrum vs Danish centrum. The "foreign" letters also sometimes appear in the spelling of otherwise-indigenous family names. For example, many of the Danish families that use the surname Skov (meaning 'forest') spell it Schou.
The Danish Wikipedia (Danish: Dansk Wikipedia) started on 1 February 2002 and is the Danish language edition of Wikipedia. As of January 2025, ...