1. Family: Indo-European
  2. Genus: Germanic

Danish

WALS coordinates: 56° N, 10° E

spoken in Denmark

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Danish
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
      Weight-Sensitive Stress Combined: Right-edge and unbounded
      Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Long vowel or coda consonant
      Morphology
      Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
      Nominal Categories
      Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
      Definite Articles Definite affix
      Indefinite Articles Indefinite word distinct from 'one'
      Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns Binary politeness distinction
      Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Identical
      Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
      Comitatives and Instrumentals Identity
      Ordinal Numerals First, second, three-th
      Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes No possessive affixes
      Verbal Categories
      Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
      The Morphological Imperative Second person number-neutral
      The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative
      Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
      The Optative Inflectional optative absent
      Situational Possibility Verbal constructions
      Epistemic Possibility Verbal constructions
      Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking Overlap for both possibility and necessity
      Word Order
      Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
      Order of Subject and Verb SV
      Order of Object and Verb VO
      Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
      Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
      Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
      Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
      Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
      Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
      Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
      Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
      Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
      Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
      Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
      Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN
      Simple Clauses
      Expression of Pronominal Subjects Obligatory pronouns in subject position
      Negative Morphemes Negative particle
      Polar Questions Interrogative word order
      Lexicon
      Hand and Arm Different
      Finger and Hand Different
      Numeral Bases Hybrid vigesimal-decimal
      Tea Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te
      Other
      Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks Affective meanings