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 |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Danish Native Dansk |
| Family | Germanic |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| 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 |
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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
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Danish speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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