Standard Danish
Standard Danish or Reich Danish ( Danish rigsdansk or rigsmål ) is the standard variant of the Danish language . The standard Danish language developed from the variant of the Malmö (until 1658) and the Copenhagen dialect ( Københavnsk ) spoken by the educated bourgeoisie , which was the norm for the rest of the country and is based on the Zeeland and Scanian languages . The first attempts to standardize the Danish written language took place at the same time as the spread of letterpress printing during the Reformation . One of the first successful attempts to standardize spelling was a Bible by Christian III. from 1550. Since then, Standard Danish has gradually supplanted the more regional variants of Danish.
Since the 1950s and 1960s at the latest, the majority of Danes have spoken standard Danish, albeit more or less regionally colored. The classic Danish dialects are spoken only in areas away from the metropolitan areas of the country, especially on Bornholm (see Bornholmsk dialect ) and in the north, west and south of Jutland (see Jutlandic dialect , Südjütisch ).
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- ↑ Søren Sørensen: Den danske litteratur begynder i Malmø i Norden Nu, June 2008 ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.6 MB)
- ↑ Projection history. In: dialekt.dk. University of Copenhagen , accessed January 8, 2013 (Danish).
- ↑ DR P1: Ud med sproget
- ↑ Peter Skautrup: Det danske sprogs historie. P. 259
- ↑ a b Bent July Nielsne and Karen Margrethe Pedersen: talesprog Danske. København 1991, p. 12
