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Language code: dan

Technical information about ISO 639 language code dan

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The table below provides technical details for the Danish language, designated by the dan code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

dan

Name

Official

Danish

Native

Dansk

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
JutlandicInsular DanishBornholmian
Related languages
Norwegian BokmålNorwegian NynorskSwedish
Key facts
Stød, a glottal catch, is a distinctive prosodic featureThe alphabet includes Æ, Ø and Å, with Å officially replacing the digraph Aa in 1948Danish has about 27 vowel phonemes, one of the largest vowel inventories in EuropeModern Standard Danish developed from the prestige speech of Copenhagen in the 19th–20th centuriesIt retains a two-gender noun system, though masculine and feminine have largely merged into a common gender
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

The Danish language, identified by the code dan, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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