Due to geographic location and mutual intelligibility, more recently the classification has changed to instead divide the languages into Insular Scandinavian, consisting of Faroese and Icelandic, and Continental Scandinavian, consisting of Swedish, Danish and Norwegian. But on top of this, there are a significant number of vowel phonemes — about 22 in total though some count as many as 40!
In comparison, English has about 12 vowel sounds and Spanish only 5. While a month-old Danish child understands an average of about 84 words, the number for a child of the same age in neighbouring Sweden was almost twice as high. Studies at the Centre for Child Language at the University of Southern Denmark have actually shown link in Danish that the substantial number of vowels in Danish makes the language difficult to learn, even for Danish kids.
By studying the language development of children in eight different countries, the researchers found that the number of vowel sounds in a language determines not only how many words a child understands, but also the number of words they are able to speak and use. Accordingly, the researchers found that while a month-old Danish child understands an average of about 84 words, the number for a child of the same age in neighbouring Sweden was almost twice as high.
For instance, some towns such as Aalborg never adopted the new convention into their name. It actually serves as the sole distinguishing feature of a number of almost completely similar words with different meanings.
Danish has an infamously odd and convoluted number system that even fellow Scandinavians find difficult to make sense of. However, the real challenge begins after the number Telling the numbers 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90 apart can be a bit tricky. Danish counts its numbers above 49 using the vigesimal system , where numbers are based on the number October 5, September 12, Also: Are there no consonants in spoken Danish? Everything sounds like a vowel. Same here. Drunk, hyper-conservative Norwegian with a touch of German accent.
September 14, More like cannot be bothered to articulate. No offence to the Danes :. September 13, December 29, Ward79 For free.
Get started Login. Danish is said to be the trickiest Scandinavian language to learn because of its speaking patterns. It is generally spoken more quickly and more softly than other Scandinavian languages.
Danish is also flatter and more monotonous than English. Dutch has more speakers; Danish can help to read other Scandinavian languages. Danish grammar is easier, while German has the more consistent pronunciation. Both Danish and English belong to the Germanic language family.
English has much more similarity with Danish than with, for example, Chinese, Russian or Basque. Another advantage of this language family is that once you know some Danish, you will be able to understand a good amount of Norwegian and Swedish.
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