Talk:Danish language/to do

Latest comment: 16 years ago by 83.89.43.14
  • Geographic distribution
    • Official status - describe the status of Danish, include information on Dansk Sprognævn.
    • Standard Danish
    • Dialects
      • Sound samples - Danish equivalent of Swedia 2000?
      • Dialect map
  • History
  • Sounds
    • Vowels
    • Consonants
    • Prosody - a thorough description of stød is essential
    • Phonotactics
  • Grammar - compare to other Scandinavian languages
    • Syntax
  • Vocabulary
  • Writing system
    • Should mention runes
    • Should mention Fraktur and when it was abandoned
    • Should mention when kj, skj, oe, aae were abandoned (Kjøbenhavn, skjøndt, foer, maae, all used in the 1870, but not in 1920)
Salmonsens konversationsleksikon has a little information about the last item on your list, see [1] (second column) 83.89.43.14 (talk) 14:25, 24 March 2008 (UTC)Reply


"Danish was formerly a mandatory subject in schools in Iceland." This is wrong and needs to be changed. Danish is mandatory from 6th to 10th grade in iceland.

Danish is not spoken in Iceland. Despite it being a mandatory subject for the students last years in grade school, it has little effect, it is more common for Icelanders and Danes to speak together in English than in Danish. Danish tourists for example cannot expect to use their native tongue in Iceland.


Number of vowels: There seems to be an inconsistency with the citation of the number of vowels between this entry and the entry on Danish phonology. See also this blog post: http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2010/11/danish.html