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Danish
5.500.000 speakers
24 language specific characters
ISO 639 code: dan
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Vær ingen gøg, hvis du er en nattergal.Vær ingen nattergal eller en stær, hvis du er en hund. Men hvem som helst kan lave lyd. Vi er Underware.
Danish is a North Germanic language with around 5.5 million speakers mainly in Denmark, but also in Greenland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Canada, the UAE and the USA. Danish was the official language of Norway until about 1830 and of Iceland until 1944. Danish is now the first foreign language learnt in Iceland.
During the Middle Ages, Danish was heavily influenced by Low German dialects, while during the 17th century Danish absorbed many French loanwords and from the 19th century onwards, many English words have been taken into Danish.
The first written work of Danish literature was Gesta Danorum (History of the Danes) written in Latin in about 1200 by Saxo Grammaticus. This recounts the history of Denmark up to 1186 and includes Danish versions (in a somewhat Christianized form) of Scandinavian myths and sagas, including the earliest version of the Hamlet story.
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wikipedia.org, omniglot.com, evertype.com & ethnologue.com