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, mainly in Denmark; the leid is uised bi 50,000 fowks in the northren pairts o Schleswig-Holstein in Germany whaur it hauds the status o a minority leid. Dens hauds offeecial status an is a mandator subject in schuil in the Dens territories o Greenland an the Faroe Islands an aw, that nou enjoys limited autonomy. In Iceland an Faroe Islands, Dens is, alangside Inglis, a compulsor fremmit leid taucht in the schuils. In North an Sooth Americae there is Dens leid communities in Argentina, the U.S. an Canadae.
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 | |
Dialects | |
Laitin script: Dano-Norse alphabet ∙ Dens orthography ∙ Dens Braille | |
Danish Sign Language | |
Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in | |
Recognised minority leid in | |
Regulatit bi | |
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 | |
ReferencesEedit
- ↑ "dansk — Den Danske Ordbog". ordnet.dk.
- ↑ Insular Dens at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Jutlandic at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dens leid". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dens". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Jutish". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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