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Danish is a natural and modern language belonging to the East Scandinavian subclass. It is indigenous to Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark, and is spoken in the Danish Realm, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland. The language uses the Latin script and employs capitalization for full names and toponyms. Its native label is dansk.

The linguistic typology of Danish is subject–verb–object with V2 word order. It is a nominative–accusative and fusional language. Grammatical features include common and neuter gender, and indicative, subjunctive, imperative, and infinitive moods. The language has nominative and genitive cases, as well as present tense, preterite, perfect tense, and pluperfect. Danish has parts including Middle Danish, Jutlandic, Southern Schleswig Danish, and Dano-Norwegian.

The Danish Language Council serves as the regulatory body. The language is studied by Scandinavian studies. There are 6,000,000 speakers, writers, or signers. The Wikimedia language code is da. The language is described by the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.