Danish is a North Germanic language belonging to the Indo-European family. As the official language of Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands, it is spoken by approximately 6 million people. Its mutual intelligibility with Swedish and Norwegian stems from their shared linguistic heritage.
The language is distinguished by its unique "stød" phonation - a glottal stop that differentiates word meanings (e.g., "anden" [the duck] vs. "anden" [the spirit]). Phonologically, it features 29 vowel sounds, one of the richest vowel inventories among world languages. Grammatical peculiarities include postfixed definite articles (hus-et = the house) and a two-gender system (common and neuter).
Evolved from Old Norse, Danish underwent standardization during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. Today, it serves as an important business language in Denmark's globally influential renewable energy, pharmaceutical, and design sectors.
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