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Language code: da

Technical information about ISO 639 language code da

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The table below provides technical details for the Danish language, designated by the da code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

da

Name

Official

Danish

Native

Dansk

Family
Germanic
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

More info

Language varieties
JutlandicInsular DanishBornholmian
Related languages
Norwegian BokmålNorwegian NynorskSwedishFaroese
Key facts
Distinctive glottal feature called “stød” separates meanings in many minimal pairsSpoken Danish has about 20 vowel phonemes—one of the largest vowel systems in EuropeA major sound change known as the Danish vowel shift took place between the 12th and 15th centuriesThe earliest recorded Danish appears in 9th-century runic inscriptionsThe Danish Language Council (Dansk Sprognævn) continuously maintains normative spelling lists
Sample phrase

Hej, hvordan har du det?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-10, ISO 8859-15, Windows 1252, CP 865, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

Danish belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Germanic subgroup. It is the official language of Denmark and the Faroe Islands, and is recognized as a minority language in Greenland. It is written using the Latin script (Danish alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 6 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Denmark

5.5M

Faroe Islands

15K

Greenland

5K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Danish speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

da-DK – Danish (Denmark)

da-GL – Danish (Greenland)

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