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Volume 57, June 2007 |
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Featured Language: Danish Danish At-a-Glance The Danish language is a member of the North Germanic, or Scandinavian, group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. The main language of Denmark, it is spoken by over 5 million people, most of whom live in Denmark; however, there are some Danish speakers in Greenland, the Faeroe Islands, Iceland, and the United States. The language is also used by the 50,000 Danes in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, where it holds the status of minority language. In Iceland, Danish is (alongside English) a compulsory foreign language taught in schools. According to “The Phonology of Danish” there is no law stipulating an official language for Denmark, making Danish the de facto language only. The Code of Civil Procedure does, however, lay down Danish as the language of the courts. Since 1997 public authorities have been obliged to observe the official spelling by way of the Orthography Law. SOURCES: |
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