Similarities between Danish language and Germanic languages
Danish language and Germanic languages have 48 things in common (in Unionpedia): Analytic language, Apophony, Bible, Canada, Christianity, Clitic, Consonant, Danelaw, Denmark, Diphthong, Elder Futhark, Faroe Islands, Faroese language, Fricative consonant, German language, Germanic peoples, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Icelandic language, Inflection, Latin script, Low German, Monophthong, Mutual intelligibility, North Germanic languages, Norway, Norwegian language, Old Norse, Pitch-accent language, ..., Proto-Indo-European language, Proto-Norse language, Runes, Scandinavia, Schleswig-Holstein, Scots language, Standard language, Stress (linguistics), Suffix, Sweden, Swedish language, Syllable, United States, V2 word order, Viking Age, Vikings, West Germanic languages, World War II. Expand index (18 more) »
Analytic language
In linguistic typology, an analytic language is a language that primarily conveys relationships between words in sentences by way of helper words (particles, prepositions, etc.) and word order, as opposed to utilizing inflections (changing the form of a word to convey its role in the sentence).
Analytic language and Danish language · Analytic language and Germanic languages ·
Apophony
In linguistics, apophony (also known as ablaut, (vowel) gradation, (vowel) mutation, alternation, internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation, replacive morphology, stem mutation, internal inflection etc.) is any sound change within a word that indicates grammatical information (often inflectional).
Apophony and Danish language · Apophony and Germanic languages ·
Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.
Bible and Danish language · Bible and Germanic languages ·
Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Christianity
ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.
Christianity and Danish language · Christianity and Germanic languages ·
Clitic
A clitic (from Greek κλιτικός klitikos, "inflexional") is a morpheme in morphology and syntax that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase.
Clitic and Danish language · Clitic and Germanic languages ·
Consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract.
Consonant and Danish language · Consonant and Germanic languages ·
Danelaw
The Danelaw (also known as the Danelagh; Dena lagu; Danelagen), as recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, is a historical name given to the part of England in which the laws of the Danes held sway and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.
Danelaw and Danish language · Danelaw and Germanic languages ·
Denmark
Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.
Danish language and Denmark · Denmark and Germanic languages ·
Diphthong
A diphthong (or; from Greek: δίφθογγος, diphthongos, literally "two sounds" or "two tones"), also known as a gliding vowel, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.
Danish language and Diphthong · Diphthong and Germanic languages ·
Elder Futhark
The Elder Futhark (also called Elder Fuþark, Older Futhark, Old Futhark or Germanic Futhark) is the oldest form of the runic alphabets.
Danish language and Elder Futhark · Elder Futhark and Germanic languages ·
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands (Føroyar; Færøerne), sometimes called the Faeroe Islands, is an archipelago between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic, about halfway between Norway and Iceland, north-northwest of Scotland.
Danish language and Faroe Islands · Faroe Islands and Germanic languages ·
Faroese language
Faroese (føroyskt mál,; færøsk) is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 66,000 people, 45,000 of whom reside on the Faroe Islands and 21,000 in other areas, mainly Denmark.
Danish language and Faroese language · Faroese language and Germanic languages ·
Fricative consonant
Fricatives are consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.
Danish language and Fricative consonant · Fricative consonant and Germanic languages ·
German language
German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.
Danish language and German language · German language and Germanic languages ·
Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples (also called Teutonic, Suebian, or Gothic in older literature) are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group of Northern European origin.
Danish language and Germanic peoples · Germanic languages and Germanic peoples ·
Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
Danish language and Germany · Germanic languages and Germany ·
Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is an autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
Danish language and Greenland · Germanic languages and Greenland ·
Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.
Danish language and Iceland · Germanic languages and Iceland ·
Icelandic language
Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language, and the language of Iceland.
Danish language and Icelandic language · Germanic languages and Icelandic language ·
Inflection
In grammar, inflection or inflexion – sometimes called accidence – is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, and mood.
Danish language and Inflection · Germanic languages and Inflection ·
Latin script
Latin or Roman script is a set of graphic signs (script) based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, which is derived from a form of the Cumaean Greek version of the Greek alphabet, used by the Etruscans.
Danish language and Latin script · Germanic languages and Latin script ·
Low German
Low German or Low Saxon (Plattdütsch, Plattdüütsch, Plattdütsk, Plattduitsk, Nedersaksies; Plattdeutsch, Niederdeutsch; Nederduits) is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands.
Danish language and Low German · Germanic languages and Low German ·
Monophthong
A monophthong (Greek monóphthongos from mónos "single" and phthóngos "sound") is a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at both beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation.
Danish language and Monophthong · Germanic languages and Monophthong ·
Mutual intelligibility
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort.
Danish language and Mutual intelligibility · Germanic languages and Mutual intelligibility ·
North Germanic languages
The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages, along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages.
Danish language and North Germanic languages · Germanic languages and North Germanic languages ·
Norway
Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.
Danish language and Norway · Germanic languages and Norway ·
Norwegian language
Norwegian (norsk) is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is the official language.
Danish language and Norwegian language · Germanic languages and Norwegian language ·
Old Norse
Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.
Danish language and Old Norse · Germanic languages and Old Norse ·
Pitch-accent language
A pitch-accent language is a language that has word-accents—that is, where one syllable in a word or morpheme is more prominent than the others, but the accentuated syllable is indicated by a particular pitch contour (linguistic tones) rather than by stress.
Danish language and Pitch-accent language · Germanic languages and Pitch-accent language ·
Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the linguistic reconstruction of the hypothetical common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, the most widely spoken language family in the world.
Danish language and Proto-Indo-European language · Germanic languages and Proto-Indo-European language ·
Proto-Norse language
Proto-Norse (also called Proto-Scandinavian, Proto-Nordic, Ancient Scandinavian, Proto-North Germanic and a variety of other names) was an Indo-European language spoken in Scandinavia that is thought to have evolved as a northern dialect of Proto-Germanic in the first centuries CE.
Danish language and Proto-Norse language · Germanic languages and Proto-Norse language ·
Runes
Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets, which were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialised purposes thereafter.
Danish language and Runes · Germanic languages and Runes ·
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties.
Danish language and Scandinavia · Germanic languages and Scandinavia ·
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig.
Danish language and Schleswig-Holstein · Germanic languages and Schleswig-Holstein ·
Scots language
Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots).
Danish language and Scots language · Germanic languages and Scots language ·
Standard language
A standard language or standard variety may be defined either as a language variety used by a population for public purposes or as a variety that has undergone standardization.
Danish language and Standard language · Germanic languages and Standard language ·
Stress (linguistics)
In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word, or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence.
Danish language and Stress (linguistics) · Germanic languages and Stress (linguistics) ·
Suffix
In linguistics, a suffix (sometimes termed postfix) is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.
Danish language and Suffix · Germanic languages and Suffix ·
Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
Danish language and Sweden · Germanic languages and Sweden ·
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken natively by 9.6 million people, predominantly in Sweden (as the sole official language), and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish.
Danish language and Swedish language · Germanic languages and Swedish language ·
Syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.
Danish language and Syllable · Germanic languages and Syllable ·
United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
Danish language and United States · Germanic languages and United States ·
V2 word order
In syntax, verb-second (V2) word order places the finite verb of a clause or sentence in second position with a single major constituent preceding it, which functions as the clause topic.
Danish language and V2 word order · Germanic languages and V2 word order ·
Viking Age
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) is a period in European history, especially Northern European and Scandinavian history, following the Germanic Iron Age.
Danish language and Viking Age · Germanic languages and Viking Age ·
Vikings
Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.
Danish language and Vikings · Germanic languages and Vikings ·
West Germanic languages
The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the extinct East Germanic languages).
Danish language and West Germanic languages · Germanic languages and West Germanic languages ·
World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
Danish language and World War II · Germanic languages and World War II ·
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- What Danish language and Germanic languages have in common
- What are the similarities between Danish language and Germanic languages
Danish language and Germanic languages Comparison
Danish language has 188 relations, while Germanic languages has 318. As they have in common 48, the Jaccard index is 9.49% = 48 / (188 + 318).
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