ISO 639-3 · dandan
East Scandinavian family
Danish
dansk
Danish is a language of the East Scandinavian branch, spoken in Denmark, Faroe Islands, Greenland and Germany. Wikidata counts about 5.5 m speakers (2012). Wikidata describes it as “North Germanic language spoken in Northern Europe”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
dan- ISO 639-1
da- Glottocode
dani1284- Family
- East Scandinavian
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 56.00, 9.00
- Wikipedia
- 213 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
4countries
1scripts
1levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Danish · dansk |
|---|---|
| Also called | Danish language, South Scandinavian |
| All speakers | 5,520,860 (2012) |
| Written in | Latin script |
| Official in | Denmark, |
| Grammatical cases | 2 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From East Scandinavian to Danish
The branches above Danish, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
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where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
