Danish part of the Germanic group of Indo-European language family. It is spoken by about 5.7 million people in the world. Language is the official language in Denmark and the European Union. Danish language, along with Swedish, Icelandic and Norwegian language belongs to the Scandinavian languages. It is common in Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Language is used also in Germany. The roots of the Danish language goes far back into the past in the third millennium BC, which date back to the emergence of runic inscriptions found after centuries in Denmark. There was a language of ancient obscheskandinavskogo language.
In Viking times (800-1050 years) was divided obscheskandinavskogo language into two subgroups: East Scandinavian and West Scandinavian. The languages of the first subgroup subsequently occurred Danish and Swedish, and the languages of the second – Norwegian and Icelandic languages. Danish language is the most prone to change than any other Scandinavian language group. And that is why the degree of understanding among people who speak Norwegian and Swedish fairly small. In the Danish language is formed infinite set of new words.
The most comprehensive dictionary of the language includes about 200,000 words. The Danish language is very much influenced by Low German dialects, however, as in other Scandinavian languages, except for a Icelandic language. As in Middle English and in Danish all final vowels matched in one sound-e, a consequence of this was the simplification of the morphology of the Danish language almost to the morphology of English.