what is the official language of denmark?

by **Stormbringer** » July 21st, 2009, 2:07 pm

what is the official language of denmark. also what is the
official language of holland?

thanks

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by **Grytolle** » July 21st, 2009, 2:45 pm

Denmark - Danish
The Netherlands (aka Holland) - Dutch

Denemarken - Deens
Nederland - Nederlands

by **Stormbringer** » July 21st, 2009, 3:34 pm

just out of curiousity what is the official language of finland, swizterland,
sweden and norway?

amsterdam is in holland yes?

what is the historical evolution or relatedness of dutch and danish? how
closely related are they?

thanks

by **bokassa** » July 21st, 2009, 4:51 pm

Stoned? so... somebody is still visiting the coffee shops...

by **Grytolle** » July 21st, 2009, 4:52 pm

use wikipedia on all the countries and languages please

by **Quetzal** » July 21st, 2009, 4:59 pm

I'm not sure what the point of these questions is, either... except for the one on the relation between Dutch and Danish, that's kind of relevant at least.

Danish and Dutch are both languages of the Germanic language family (as is English); Danish is more specifically a language descending from the medieval Old-Norse (essentially what the Vikings spoke), just like Icelandic, Faeroer, Norwegian and Swedish (but *not* Finnish). At that time, Dutch and German (and Frysian) weren't really separate languages yet, more a collection of related language variants. In the later Middle Ages, you could say Dutch became a separate language, with a number of pronunciation shifts and other changes, and it has evolved separately from German since then. So I suppose that to find a common ancestor of Danish and Dutch, you'd have to go back to 500 AD and possibly even earlier, but I'm sure some people will be able to give more specific information.

by **MaxJ** » July 21st, 2009, 6:04 pm

About the official languages, Finland(Finnish and Swedish), Switserland(German, French, Italian and Romansh), Sweden(Swedish) and Norway(Norwegian). I hope you do know that Switserland is not in Scandinavia but that the other 3 countries are in Scandinavia.

by **AppelstroopIsLekker** » July 22nd, 2009, 4:09 am

This is, by far, the most random post I have ever seen on this forum

But hey... what are forums for, after all?

by **JazzedPotato** » July 22nd, 2009, 9:12 am

AppelstroopIsLekker wrote:This is, by far, the most random post I have ever seen on this forum

But hey... what are forums for, after all?

Perhaps we create a forumaward for it.. ' The NonDutch And Nonsequential Trivia Of The Year- Award' ? (aka NANTOTYA')

by **Lukaske** » July 22nd, 2009, 2:00 pm

Stormbringer wrote:just out of curiousity what is the official language of finland, swizterland,
sweden and norway?
FINLAND - FOREIGN LANGUAGE
SWITZERLAND - SIGN LANGUAGE
SWEDEN - JAPANESE
NORWAY - MORSE CODE

amsterdam is in holland yes? NOPE, IT'S ACTUALLY IN AUSTRALIA - 1 HOUR DRIVE SOUTH OF SYDNEY.

what is the historical evolution or relatedness of dutch and danish? how
closely related are they? THEY BOTH HAVE "D" AND "H" IN THEIR NAMES. ALSO, THEY BOTH START WITH D AND END WITH H
DUTCH - DANISH.

thanks

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by **AppelstroopIsLekker** » July 22nd, 2009, 8:31 pm

JazzedPotato wrote:
AppelstroopIsLekker wrote:This is, by far, the most random post I have ever seen on this forum

But hey... what are forums for, after all?

Perhaps we create a forumaward for it.. ' The NonDutch And Nonsequential Trivia Of The Year- Award' ? (aka NANTOTYA')

Lijkt me een goed idee. lol