Official language of Denmark, belonging to the Scandinavian (North) branch of the Germanic languages .
It began to separate from the other Scandinavian languages с AD 1000. Modern Danish is the Scandinavian language that has undergone the greatest amount of change from Old Scandinavian. A spelling reform in 1948 eliminated the capitalization of nouns and introduced the letter å for aa , thereby making the spelling more similar to that of Norwegian and Swedish. Evidence of Denmark's political influence can be seen in the stamp of the Danish language on the Norwegian , Swedish , and Icelandic languages. It is taught in the schools of the Faroe Islands, of Iceland, and of Greenland.