where is danish located?
Denmark Greenland
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 The Danish name is not unexpected ; the language of the Ormulum , an East Midlands dialect , is stringently of the Danelaw ( Bennett and Smithers 1982 , pp. 174 – 75 ) . It includes numerous Old Norse phrases ( particularly doublets , where an English and Old Norse term are co @-@ joined ) , but there are very few Old French influences on Orm 's language ( Bennett 1986 , p . 33 ) . Another — likely previous — East Midlands work , the Peterborough Chronicle , shows a great deal of French influence . The linguistic contrast between it and the work of Orm demonstrates both the sluggishness of the Norman influence in the formerly Danish areas of England and the assimilation of Old Norse features into early Middle English ( Bennett 1986 , pp. 259 – 63 ) . 

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 From 1200 onwards , the dialects in Denmark began to diverge from those of Sweden . The innovations spread unevenly from Denmark which created a series of minor dialectal boundaries , or isoglosses , ranging from Zealand in the south to Norrland , Österbotten and northwestern Finland in the north . 

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 Approximately 350 @,@ 000 non @-@ Western immigrants lived in Denmark in 2006 , representing about 7 % of the country 's population . According to figures reported by the BBC , about 270 @,@ 000 of these were Muslim ( ca . 5 % of the population ) . In the 1970s Muslims arrived from Turkey , Pakistan , Morocco and Yugoslavia to work . In the 1980s and 90s most Muslim arrivals were refugees and asylum seekers from Iran , Iraq , Somalia and Bosnia . Muslims are the second @-@ largest religious group in Denmark behind Lutherans . 

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 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 . 

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 = = = = Paris , Eastern Europe and Norway = = = = 
