page_title: Anglia (peninsula)
section_title: Languages
hierarchical_section_title: Anglia (peninsula) / Languages
caption_attribution_description: English: Linguistic Situation in Schleswig / Slesvig about 1840, source: "Sprachwandel in Schleswig um 1840", Historischer Atlas Schleswig-Holstein vom Mittelalter bis 1867, Neumünster 2004, with consideration of historical maps from the 19th century.
context_page_description: Anglia is a small peninsula within the larger Jutland Peninsula in the region of Southern Schleswig, which constitutes the northern part of the northernmost German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, protruding into the Bay of Kiel of the Baltic Sea.
  To the south, Anglia is separated from the neighbouring peninsula of Swania by the Sly Firth, and to the north from the Danish peninsula of Sundeved and the Danish island of Als by the Flensburg Firth. The landscape is hilly, dotted with numerous lakes. Whether ancient Anglia conformed to the borders of the Anglian Peninsula is uncertain. It may have been somewhat larger; however, the ancient sources mainly concur that it also included the peninsula's territory.
  Anglia has a significance far beyond its current small area and country terrain, in that it is believed to have been the original home of the Angles, Germanic settlers in East Anglia, Central and Northern England, and the Eastern Scottish Lowlands. Their migration led to their new homeland being named after them, from which the name "England" derives. England, East, Mid and West Anglia as well as the English language, thus, ultimately derive at least their names from Anglia.
context_section_description: The main language of Anglia is German. The peninsula is, however, also part of the Low German (Low Saxon) language area, a language which is more closely related to English than German since it was not affected by the High German consonant shift. 
  Danish was the main language of Anglia from the 9th to the 19th century. The Danish variety indigenous to Anglia was Anglian Danish (Dan. Angeldansk or Angelbomål, Ger. Angeldänisch), a dialect of South Jutlandic (Synnejysk, Dan. Sønderjysk, Ger. Südjütisch or Südjütländisch), the southernmost variety of Danish spoken on the Jutland Peninsula, once spoken as far south as Eckernförde-Borby (Dan. Egernførde or Egernfjord-Borreby) on the Eckernförde Bay (Ger. Eckernförder Bucht, Dan. Egernførde Fjord). In the 19th century, however, a language shift towards Low German occurred. Danish is still spoken in Anglia by a minority, but in Southern Schleswig Danish dialects, which are not dialects of South Jutlandic, but Low German-influenced dialects of Standard Danish. The cities with the largest Danish-speaking minorities are Flensburg/Flensborg, Schleswig/Slesvig and Glücksburg/Lyksborg.
  Many Anglian placenames are of Danish origin, like all placenames ending on -by (meaning "city"; e.g. Brodersby-Goltoft, Flensburg-Engelsby/Flensborg-Engelsby, Flensburg-Jürgensby/Flensborg-Jørgensby, Nieby/Nyby) and -rup (meaning "village"; e.g. Sörup/Sørup, Sterup, Tastrup/Tostrup). There are many placenames of Danish origin in England as well (e.g. Derby, Rugby, Whitby), but in Danish, German and Swedish, -by is pronounced IPA: [by:], and not IPA: [bi:], as in England.
  North Frisian, one of the Frisian languages, that form the Anglo-Frisian languages together with English, is spoken in many dialectal variants in neighbouring North Frisia along the North Sea coast of Schleswig-Holstein and on the North Frisian Islands.
caption: In the 19th century, a language shift from Danish to Low German occurred in Anglia.
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