Dens leid
North Germanic leid
Dens (dansk) is a Germanic leid an pairt o the North Germanic brainch. It is spoken bi aboot 6 million fowk, maistly in Denmark; the leid is uised bi 50,000 fowk in the northren pairts o Schleswig-Holstein in Germany whaur it haes the status as a minority leid. Dens haes offeecial status an is a subject fowk in schuil need tae lairn in the Dens pairts o Greenland an the Faroe Islands forby. In Iceland an Faroe Islands, Dens is, alang wi Inglis, a fremmit leid taucht in the schuils as a subject fowk hiv tae lairn. In North an Sooth Americae thare is Dens leid communities in Argentina, the U.S. an Canadae. Due tae immigration an leid substitution in Greenland, atween 15-20% o the fowk speak Dens as thair mither tongue.
Dens | |
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dansk | |
The first page o the Jutlandic Law oreeginally frae 1241 in Codex Holmiensis, copied in 1350. The first sentence is: "Mæth logh skal land byggas" Modren orthografie: "Med lov skal land bygges" Scots translation: "Wi law shall a kintra be biggit" | |
Pronunciation | [ˈtænˀsk][1] |
Native tae | |
Ethnicity | Danes |
Native speakers | 5.5 million (2012)[2] |
Early forms | Auld Norse
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Dialects |
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Laitin script: Dano-Norse alphabet ∙ Dens orthography ∙ Dens Braille | |
Signed forms | Danish Sign Language |
Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in |
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Recognised minority leid in | |
Regulatit bi | Dansk Sprognævn (Dens Leid Committee) |
Leid codes | |
ISO 639-1 | da |
ISO 639-2 | dan |
ISO 639-3 | Either:dan – Insular Densjut – Jutlandic |
Glottolog | dani1285 Dens[4]juti1236 Jutish[5] |
Linguasphere | 5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj |
The Dens-speakin warld: regions whaur Dens is the leid o the majority regions whaur Dens is the leid o a significant minority | |
References
Fremmit airtins
- Scots an Dens cognates Archived 2008-01-10 at the Wayback Machine
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