Editing Danish language (section)

=== Early Modern ===
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Following the first Bible translation, the development of Danish as a [[written language]], as a language of religion, administration, and public discourse accelerated. In the second half of the 17th century, grammarians elaborated grammars of Danish, first among them [[Rasmus Bartholin]]'s 1657 Latin grammar {{lang|la|De studio lingvæ danicæ}}; then [[Laurids Olufsen Kock]]'s 1660 grammar of the [[Zealand]] dialect {{lang|la|Introductio ad lingvam Danicam puta selandicam}}; and in 1685 the first Danish grammar written in Danish, {{lang|da|Den Danske Sprog-Kunst}} ("The Art of the Danish Language") by [[Peder Syv]]. Major authors from this period are [[Thomas Kingo]], poet and psalmist, and [[Leonora Christina Ulfeldt]], whose novel {{lang|da|Jammersminde}} (''Remembered Woes'') is considered a literary masterpiece by scholars. [[Orthography]] was still not standardized and the principles for doing so were vigorously discussed among Danish philologists. The grammar of [[Jens Pedersen Høysgaard]] was the first to give a detailed analysis of Danish phonology and prosody, including a description of the {{lang|da|stød}}. In this period, scholars were also discussing whether it was best to "write as one speaks" or to "speak as one writes", including whether archaic grammatical forms that had fallen out of use in the vernacular, such as the plural form of verbs, should be conserved in writing (i.e. {{lang|da|han er}} "he is" vs. {{lang|da|de ere}} "they are").{{sfn|Pedersen|1996}}

The East Danish provinces were lost to Sweden after the [[Second Treaty of Brömsebro (1645)]] after which they were gradually Swedified; just as Norway was politically severed from Denmark, beginning also a gradual end of Danish influence on Norwegian (influence through the shared written standard language remained). With the [[History of Denmark#Absolutism|introduction of absolutism]] in 1660, the Danish state was further integrated, and the language of the Danish chancellery, a Zealandic variety with German and French influence, became the ''de facto'' [[Lingua franca|official standard language]], especially in writing—this was the original so-called {{lang|da|rigsdansk}} ("Danish of the Realm"). Also, beginning in the mid-18th century, the {{lang|da|skarre-R}}, the [[Guttural R|uvular R]] sound ({{IPA|[ʁ]}}), began spreading through Denmark, likely through influence from [[Parisian French]] and German. It affected all of the areas where Danish had been influential, including all of Denmark, Southern Sweden, and coastal southern Norway.{{sfn|Torp|2006|p=52}}

In the 18th century, Danish philology was advanced by [[Rasmus Rask]], who pioneered the disciplines of [[Comparative linguistics|comparative]] and [[Historical linguistics|historical]] linguistics, and wrote the first English-language grammar of Danish. Literary Danish continued to develop with the works of [[Ludvig Holberg]], whose plays and historical and scientific works laid the foundation for the Danish literary canon. With the Danish colonization of Greenland by [[Hans Egede]], Danish became the administrative and religious language there, while Iceland and the Faroe Islands had the status of Danish colonies with Danish as an official language until the mid-20th century.{{sfn|Pedersen|1996}}