New for Summer 2025: Elementary Danish!
Danish is spoken by about 6 million people around the world. Most live in Denmark, but Danish is also an official language in Greenland and the Faroe Islands – both autonomous constituent countries under the Kingdom of Denmark – as well as in the northern parts of neighboring Germany, where Danish has minority status.
Danish is a North Germanic language, derived originally from Old Norse, and part of the Indo-European language family. It belongs to what is traditionally known as the East Scandinavian languages, along with Swedish, as opposed to the West Scandinavian languages, consisting of Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese.
Due to geographic location and mutual intelligibility, more recently the classification has changed to instead divide the languages into Insular Scandinavian, consisting of Faroese and Icelandic, and Continental Scandinavian, consisting of Swedish, Danish and Norwegian.
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Information above has been sourced from the Sandberg Translation Partners