what language do they denmark?
Danish Language
entailment
 Before June 2009 , Greenlandic shared its status as the official language in Greenland with Danish . Since then , Greenlandic has become the sole official language . This has made Greenlandic a unique example of an indigenous language of the Americas that is recognized by law as the only official language of a semi @-@ independent country . Nevertheless , it is still considered to be in a " vulnerable " state by the UNESCO Red Book of Language Endangerment . The country has a 100 % literacy rate . As the Western Greenlandic standard has become dominant , a UNESCO report has labelled the other dialects as endangered , and measures are now being considered to protect the Eastern Greenlandic dialect . 

entailment
 From the Danish colonization in the 1700s to the beginning of Greenlandic home rule in 1979 , Greenlandic experienced increasing pressure from the Danish language . In the 1950s , Denmark 's linguistic policies were directed at replacing Greenlandic with Danish . Of primary significance was that post @-@ primary education and official functions were conducted in Danish . 

entailment
 Although the Faroese language is designated as the country 's principal language , the Home Rule Act of the Faroe Islands states that the Danish language " is to be learnt well and carefully " . Up to ninth grade , most school material is in Faroese ; there are Danish classes since third grade . In upper secondary education this pattern is reversed ; courses are taught in Danish , except the Faroese language courses . The Faroese language is taught 64 hours per week , overall , throughout compulsory education , while Danish is taught 29 hours per week ; exams in both languages are equal in length . English language courses start from 4th grade and they are taught for 60 hours annually at that grade , 90 hours in 5th grade , 120 hours in 6th , 7th , 8th and 9th grade ; pupils who chose to take the 10th grade have the option to get another 120 hours of English lessons . 

entailment
 By many general criteria of mutual intelligibility , the Continental Scandinavian languages could very well be considered dialects of a common Scandinavian language . However , because of several hundred years of sometimes quite intense rivalry between Denmark and Sweden , including a long series of wars from the 16th to 18th centuries , and the nationalist ideas that emerged during the late 19th and early 20th centuries , the languages have separate orthographies , dictionaries , grammars , and regulatory bodies . Danish , Norwegian , and Swedish are thus from a linguistic perspective more accurately described as a dialect continuum of Scandinavian ( North Germanic ) , and some of the dialects , such as those on the border between Norway and Sweden , especially parts of Bohuslän , Dalsland , western Värmland , western Dalarna , Härjedalen , Jämtland and Scania , could be described as intermediate dialects of the national standard languages . 

contradiction
 Standard Swedish , spoken by most Swedes , is the national language that evolved from the Central Swedish dialects in the 19th century and was well established by the beginning of the 20th century . While distinct regional varieties descended from the older rural dialects still exist , the spoken and written language is uniform and standardized . 
