Danish is a language of the Northern Germanic family, also known as Scandinavian, spoken in Denmark.
It is a language spoken by 5.5 million people worldwide. Most of them live on the Danish border of Denmark and Germany. In addition, Denmark’s former colonies, Iceland, Greenland and Faroe Islands schools are taught as compulsory second language lessons.
The separation of the common ancestor of the Scandinavian language from the Old Norse language was considered the 13th century. it started in the 16th century and emerged independently from other languages. it was during the century when the Bible was translated. Even today, it is very easy to read and understand a Danish article for a Swede. However, the spoken languages are different.
As the Danish language becomes modernized, the use of special sounds which are very difficult to learn by foreigners is diminishing.