Languages of Denmark

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The Kingdom of Denmark has only one official language, Danish, the national language of the Danish people, but there are several minority languages spoken throught the territory. These include German, Faroese, and Greenlandic. A large majority of Danes also speak English as a second language.

[edit] German

German is an official minority language in South Jutland, which was part of Imperial Germany prior the the Treaty of Versailles. Around 23,000 Germans live in South Jutland, of which 5000 are mother-tounge speakers of either standard German or the Schleswigsch variety of Low Saxon, which is highly divergent from High German, and quite difficult to understand by speakers of the standard language?

[edit] Faroese

Faroese, a North Germanic language like Danish, is the primary language of the Faroe Islands, a self-governing territory of the Kingdom. It is also spoken by some Faroese immigrants to mainland Denmark.

[edit] Greenlandic

Greenlandic is the main language of the 54,000 Inuits living in Greenland, which is, like the Faroes, a self-governing territory of Denmark.