Abstract
Three issues arise in sociolinguistic studies of the relationship between Danish and other languages, the first of which is the acquisition and development of Danish by the linguistic minorities. The second issue concerns bilingualism, including the maintenance of the minority languages, and the third issue involves more powerful languages, primarily English. These themes have all been hotly debated in the public political and educational discourse in Denmark during the 1990s. I describe the Danish sociopolitical debate about languages in general, and with particular reference to status differences between languages and ways of being a language user. Against this background I review sociolinguistic research into bilingualism and minority languages in Denmark with the purpose of summarizing the general results in this field.
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