Denmark

Extensive List of Languages of Denmark: Spoken Languages

:: List of Languages ::

Danish [dan] 5,450,000 in Denmark (2007). Population total all countries: 5,581,690. Also in Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, United States. Alternate names: Dansk, Rigsdansk. Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, North, East Scandinavian, Danish-Swedish, Danish-Riksmal, Danish

Danish Sign Language [dsl] 5,000 (2007). Dialects: Some signs are related to French Sign Language [fsl]. Intelligible with Swedish and Norwegian sign languages with only moderate difficulty. Not intelligible with Finnish Sign Language [fse]. Classification: Deaf sign language

Faroese [fao] 48,200 in Denmark (2007). Population total all countries: 48,260. Faroe Islands. Also in United States. Alternate names: Føroyskt. Dialects: Not inherently intelligible with Icelandic [isl]. Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, North, West Scandinavian

German, Standard [deu] 25,900 in Denmark (2007). North Slesvig (Sydjylland). Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Middle German, East Middle German

Jutish [jut] German-Danish border area, south Jutland. Also in Germany. Alternate names: Jutlandish, Jysk, Western Danish. Dialects: The westernmost and southernmost dialects differ so much from Standard Danish that many people from the Eastern Islands have great difficulty understanding it. From the viewpoint of inherent intelligibility, it could be considered a separate language (1996 N. Strade). Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, North, East Scandinavian, Danish-Swedish, Danish-Riksmal, Danish

Kalaallisut, Greenlandic [kal] 10,000 in Denmark (2002). Alternate names: Inuktitut, Greenlandic. Classification: Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo, Inuit

Swedish [swe] Bornholm Island. Dialects: Scanian (Eastern Danish, Skane, Skånska, Southern Swedish). Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, North, East Scandinavian, Danish-Swedish, Swedish

Traveller Danish [rmd] Extinct. Alternate names: Rodi, Rotwelsch. Dialects: An independent language based on Danish [dan] with heavy lexical borrowing from Romani. Not inherently intelligible with Angloromani [rme]. It may be intelligible with Traveller Norwegian [rmg] and Traveller Swedish [rmu]. Classification: Mixed language, Danish-Romani

:: Reference ::

Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/