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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.

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Dens
dansk
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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
EthnicityDanes
Native speakers
5.5 million (2012)[2]
Indo-European
Early forms
Auld Norse
  • Auld East Norse
    • Early Auld Dens
      • Late Auld Dens
Dialects
  • Bornholmian (Eastren Dens)
  • Jutlandic
  • Sooth Jutlandic
  • Insular Dens
Laitin script:
Dano-Norse alphabet
Dens orthography
Dens Braille
Signed forms
Danish Sign Language
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in
Recognised minority
leid in
Regulatit bi
Dansk Sprognævn
(Dens Leid Committee)
Leid codes
ISO 639-1da
ISO 639-2dan
ISO 639-3Either:
dan  Insular Dens
jut  Jutlandic
Glottologdani1285  Dens[4]
juti1236  Jutish[5]
Linguasphere5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
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The Dens-speakin warld:
  regions whaur Dens is the leid o the majority
  regions whaur Dens is the leid o a significant minority
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