The Danish alphabet incorporates the additional vowels æ, ø, å along with the Latin alphabet.
Danish falls under the group of Scandinavian languages which make up the North Germanic branch of Indo-European languages and developed the furthest among other Scandinavian languages from its Old Norse roots in the Middle Ages.
Written Danish and Norwegian is barely distinguishable although differences are more apparent when spoken. However, a Dano-Norwegian dialect is still spoken in Norway today.
Danish has two cases (nominative and genitive) and two genders (common and neuter).
Spoken modern Danish has a reputation of being hard to understand for foreigners and Danes alike because of its tendency to swallow many sounds ending in the equivalent of guttural noises.