Dens leid

Dens
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]
Native tae	Denmark Greenland Faroe Islands Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Ethnicity	Danes
Native speakers	5.5 million (2012)
Leid faimily	Indo-European Germanic North Germanic Sooth Scandinavian Dens
Early forms	Auld Norse Auld East Norse Early Auld Dens Late Auld Dens
Dialects	Bornholmian (Eastren Dens) Jutlandic Sooth Jutlandic Insular Dens
Writin seestem	Laitin script: Dano-Norse alphabet ∙ Dens orthography ∙ Dens Braille
Signed forms	Danish Sign Language
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Kinrick o Denmark  • Denmark  • Faroe Islands Schleswig-Holstein Template:Kintra data Nordic Cooncil European Union
Recognised minority leid in	• Greenland Germany
Regulatit bi	Dansk Sprognævn (Dens Leid Committee)
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	da
ISO 639-2	dan
ISO 639-3	Either: dan – Insular Dens jut – Jutlandic
Glottolog	dani1285  Dens juti1236  Jutish
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

Dens (dansk) is a Germanic leid an pairt o the North Germanic brainch. It is spoken bi aboot 6 million fowk, maistly in Denmark; the leid is uised bi 50,000 fowk in the northren pairts o Schleswig-Holstein in Germany whaur it haes the status as a minority leid. Dens haes offeecial status an is a subject fowk in schuil need tae lairn in the Dens pairts o Greenland an the Faroe Islands forby. In Iceland an Faroe Islands, Dens is, alang wi Inglis, a fremmit leid taucht in the schuils as a subject fowk hiv tae lairn. In North an Sooth Americae thare is Dens leid communities in Argentina, the U.S. an Canadae. Due tae immigration an leid substitution in Greenland, atween 15-20% o the fowk speak Dens as thair mither tongue.

Fremmit airtins

• Scots an Dens cognates Archived 2008-01-10 at the Wayback Machine