Danish
North Germanic language spoken in Northern Europe
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Summary
Danish is a natural language[1]. Danish ranks in the top 6% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,357 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Kingdom of Denmark[3], Denmark[4], Faroe Islands[5], Greenland[6], Germany[7]
- Instance of: modern language[8], language[9], spoken language[10]
- Subclass of: East Scandinavian[11]
- Writing system: Latin script[12]
- Commons category: Danish language[13]
- Wikimedia language code: da[14]
- Has part(s): Modern Danish[15], Jutlandic[16], Insular Danish[17], Angel Danish[18], Southern Schleswig Danish[19], Perkerdansk[20], Dano-Norwegian[21], East Danish[22]
- Topic's main category: Category:Danish language[23]
- Language regulatory body: Danish Language Council[24]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 6,000,000[25], 5,520,860[26], 5,621,380[27]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[28], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[29], The American Cyclopædia[30]
- Topic has template: Template:Danish language[31]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/danish[32]
- Has characteristic: agreement[33], translations from Danish[34], translation into Danish[35]
- Native label: dansk[36]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C153894[37]
- Short name: датский[38], данська[39], дацкая[40], даниаг[41], датски[42], daneză[43]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[44]
- History of topic: history of Danish[45]
- Indigenous to: Schleswig-Holstein[46], Denmark[47]
- Female form of label: la langue danoise[48]
Why It Matters
Danish has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] Danish is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]