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Danish is a North Germanic language descended from Old Norse, and English is a West Germanic language descended from Old English. Old Norse exerted a strong influence on Old English in the early medieval period.
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The Danish language developed during the Middle Ages out of Old East Norse, the common predecessor of Danish and Swedish. It was a late form of common Old Norse. The Danish philologist Johannes Brøndum-Nielsen divided the history of Danish into "Old Danish" from 800 AD to 1525 and "Modern Danish" from 1525 and onwards.
Vor 3 Tagen · Danish belongs to the East Scandinavian branch of North Germanic languages. It began to separate from the other Scandinavian languages, to which it is closely related, about ad 1000. The oldest Danish records are runic inscriptions ( c. ad 250–800) found from Jutland to southern Sweden; the earliest manuscripts in Danish date from ...
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6. Sept. 1999 · A Very Brief History of Danish. The origins of Modern Danish reach back beyond our short English memories to the days before the Indo-Europeans. The first known inhabitants of the area now known as Denmark are estimated by archaeologists to have moved in around 10,000 B.C., ostensibly following a herd of reindeer.
Derivation of Germanic languages from Proto-Germanic. Scandinavian languages, group of Germanic languages consisting of modern standard Danish, Swedish, Norwegian (Dano-Norwegian and New Norwegian), Icelandic, and Faroese. These languages are usually divided into East Scandinavian (Danish and Swedish) and West Scandinavian (Norwegian, Icelandic
Introduction. The evolution of the Danish language is a fascinating journey through history, culture, and linguistic shifts. Danish, a North Germanic language, has roots stretching back to the Iron Age and has undergone significant changes to become the language spoken in Denmark today. Early Beginnings: Old Norse Influence.
Native name: dansk [ˈdanˀsɡ] Language family: Indo-European, Germanic, North Germanic, East Scandinavian, Continental Scandinavian. Number of speakers: c. 5.6 million. Spoken in: Denmark, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Germany, Sweden, Norway. First written: 9th century AD. Writing system: Runic script (9th-11th centuries) then the Latin alphabet.
