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Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, 90, 2012, p. 809– 832 Danish*

† Jørgen Rischel (1)

1. The identity of Danish

1.1. The name of Danish

Around 900, kings of the present Danish royal lineage conquered all of Denmark; the inhabitants at that time were referred to as danir ‘ Danes’. In the Viking Age the language name dönsk tunga ‘ the Danish tongue’ was widely used as a common denominator of Old Nordic but it also referred more specifically to the language of the Danes. In our time, dansk is generally understood as Modern Standard Danish, also called rigsdansk. There are considerable differences between the traditional dialects of northernmost Jutland, Slesvig, Funen, Zealand and Bornholm, but they are all unmistakably Danish, and when it comes to a written norm, the shared language loyalty across all these regions also defines Danish as one language.

1.2. The family affiliation of Danish

Danish is a Germanic language. More specifically, Danish (together with Swedish) belongs to the Eastern branch of North Germanic or Scandinavian. Until around 1000 AD there were only minor differences within the Scandinavian dialect continuum that eventually splintered into distinct Nordic languages, so Danish proper should probably be reckoned from that period onwards.

* This article appears as it was submitted by the author in 2006. (1) Jørgen Rischel had a university education in Danish and Nordic languages and literatures. He headed a nationally sponsored project “ Spoken Danish in its Variations”, which over the years 1986-1992 built up a corpus of natural speech, and coedited and contributed to Aspects of Danish Prosody. He retired in 1998 from a post as professor of linguistics and phonetics at the University of Copenhagen. Most of his publications deal with languages traditionally found within the Kingdom of Denmark. In The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and Academia Europaea he has held posts dealing with Danish and European research policies. He was a member of the executive council of the CIPL (Comité International Permanent de Linguistes).

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