History of Danish

History Of Danish

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Old Norse
Dialects
  • Old West Norse (Old Icelandic, Old Norwegian, Greenlandic Norse)
  • Old East Norse (Old Danish, Old Swedish)
  • Old Gutnish
Use
  • Orthography
  • Runic alphabet (Younger Futhark, Medieval)
  • Latin alphabet
  • Grammar
  • Phonology
  • Morphology
Literature
  • Poetry (Alliterative verse)
  • Sagas (Sagas of Icelanders)
  • Edda (Poetic Edda, Prose Edda)
  • First Grammatical Treatise
Ancestors
  • Proto-Indo-European
  • Proto-Germanic
  • Proto-Norse
Descendants
  • Danish
  • Faroese
  • Icelandic
  • Norn (extinct)
  • Norwegian
  • Swedish
See also: English borrowings

The Danish language develops during the Middle Ages out of the Old East Norse, the common predecessor of Danish and Swedish, itself a late form of common Old Norse. The history of Danish can by convention be divided into:

  • Old Danish (Old East Norse), 9th to 11th centuries
  • Middle Danish, 12th to 15th centuries
  • Modern Danish, 16th century to present.

Read more about History Of Danish:  Old Danish, Middle Danish, Modern Danish

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