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DANISH
The southernmost of the Nordic countries, Denmark is located southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany.
A few Funny Facts about
the Kingdom of Denmark
and the Danish language
1. The Danish language has no word for "please". Generally speaking, you use the form "May I ask for" instead.
2. In Denmark, it is not against the law to escape from prison.
3. The name LEGO is a combination of two Danish words, "Leg Godt", which means "Play Well".
4. The UN World Happiness Report has rated Danes as the happiest people on earth two years in a row.
5. Fifty percent of Copenhageners commute to work via bike.
6. In 1989 Denmark became the first country in the world to legalize same-sex unions, although same-sex marriage was not granted until 2012.
The coat of arms
of the Kingdom of Denmark
The current design was of the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Denmark was introduced in 1819, under
Frederick VI.
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Content
Pronunciation
of Danish Vowels and Consonants
A Table of Vowels with pronunciations (from a to ø)
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A Table of Vowels with pronunciations (from ø to e)
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A Table of Digraphs with pronunciations (from er to eg)
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A Table of Digraphs with pronunciations (from uj to øv)
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A Table of Consonants with pronunciations (from g to l)
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A Table of Consonants with pronunciations (from m to tj)
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Danish (Dansk)
The Danish language can be dated right back to the Viking times. With Danish Vikings being around from 800 BC to 1,000 AD, it traced through Scandinavia, Germany, France, the UK, Ireland and most of Europe.
Danish is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Swedish. Proficient speakers of any of the three languages can often understand the others fairly well, though studies have shown that speakers of Norwegian generally understand both Danish and Swedish far better than Swedes or Danes understand each other. Both Swedes and Danes also understand Norwegian better than they understand each other's languages.
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