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Danish

Dansk

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Official Language of the EU

Speaker Numbers

International Speaker Numbers according to
EGIDS (Ethnologue) Source UNESCO Source ELCAT (Endangered Languages Project) Source
5 816 910 Site under maintenance (will be updated) Not listed
National Speaker Numbers
Country Language National Speaker Number Bases for Calculation Year Source
Denmark None ('De facto' official language: Danish) Approx. 6 000 000 (not a census) Language spoken 2026 (Website accessed)
Germany Danish 50 000 (estimate, not a census) Understood and spoken 2000 (Publication)


Endangerment

International Endangerment according to
UNESCO Source ELCAT (Endangered Languages Project) Source
Site under maintenance (will be updated) Not listed
National Endangerment according to EGIDS (Ethnologue)
Country Language Endangerment Level Source
Denmark None ('De facto' official language: Danish) 1 (National)
Germany Danish 5* (Dispersed)
Pan-National Official Language in
ECRML-Recognised in

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