Danish is an East Scandinavian member of the Germanic subgroup of the Indo-European language family spoken by approximately 5.3 million people, principally concentrated in Denmark but also found in Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United Arab Emirates and the United States.
Danish is also known as Dansk, Central Danish and Sjaelland.
Settles questions of Danish language usage, produces the official orthographical dictionary of Danish, and charts the development of Danish. Bilingual site (Danish and English). www.dsn.dk/omdsn_en.htm
General information from the University of Wales on the current status of Danish as a minority language in the Land of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. Trilingual site (English, French, Welsh). www.aber.ac.uk/mercator/english/lang/danish.htm