Not sure what I can say when you don't believe me. Here is an article from the Danish national encyclopedia (in Danish). http://www.denstoredanske.dk/index.ph

Not sure what I can say when you don't believe me. Here is an article from the Danish national encyclopedia (in Danish). http://www.denstoredanske.dk/index.php?title=Samfund%2C_jura_og_politik/Sprog/Tysk_sprog/Tysk/Tysk_(Tysk_i_Danmark) http://www.denstoredanske.dk/index.php?title=Samfund%2C_jura... German was the official language of the Danish military until 1772, and equal to Danish in the city administration and guilds. Another article: http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Samfund%2c_jura_og_politik/Sprog/Dansk/dansk/dansk_(Historie)/dansk_(Historie_-_Nydansk_(efter_1525) http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Samfund%2c_jura_og_politik/Spro...) No foreign language has had greater impact on Danish than Low German ... 16-17% of the Danish words are from Low German, 4-8% from Greek or Latin, 2-4% from French, and less than 1% from English. [ For comparison, around 2% of the English words are from Danish (from the viking era), according to Joseph M. Williams _Origins of the English Language_ ].