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aa is treated like å in alphabetical sorting, not like two adjacent letters a , meaning that while a is the first letter of the alphabet, aa is the last. In Norwegian (but not in Danish), this rule does not apply to non-Scandinavian names, so a modern atlas would list the German city of Aachen under a , but list the Danish town of Aabenraa ...
Danish orthography is the system and norms used for writing the Danish language, including spelling and punctuation. Officially, the norms are set by the Danish language council through the publication of Retskrivningsordbogen. Danish currently uses a 29-letter Latin-script alphabet with an additional three letters: æ , ø and å .
Dania (Latin for Denmark) is the traditional linguistic transcription system used in Denmark to describe the Danish language. It was invented by Danish linguist Otto Jespersen and published in 1890 in the Dania, Tidsskrift for folkemål og folkeminder magazine from which the system was named.
letter y is not used, except in loanwords (ü is the corresponding vowel) letters b and g (without preceding n) are found outside of loanwords; occasional use of š and ΕΎ, mainly in loanwords (plus combination tš) loanwords more common generally than in Finnish, mainly loaned from German
All the three languages use the letter å . Danish and Norwegian use kk , but Swedish uses ck . Danish might also use a single 'k' finally, even for short vowels. Swedish uses the letter x in native words, but Danish and Norwegian use ks instead. In Swedish orthography, the etymological hv was abolished in 1906.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Danish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Danish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Danish intonation reflects the combination of the stress group, sentence type and prosodic phrase, where the stress group is the main intonation unit. In Copenhagen Standard Danish, the stress group mainly has a certain pitch pattern that reaches its lowest peak on the stressed syllable followed by its highest peak on the immediately following ...
Danish has a competing periphrastic form of the passive formed with the verb blive ("to remain, to become"). In addition to the proper passive constructions, the passive also denotes: a reciprocal form (only with the s -passive): Hans og Jørgen mødtes på gaden "John and George met on the street", vi ses på onsdag "we'll see each other on ...