Danish is a language with strong aspiration. Unlike in Norwegian and Swedish, it has an affricated voiceless alveolar plosive. It occurs before stressed vowels and also stressed vowels preceded by a voiceless labiodental fricative and a palatal approximant. Affrication does not occur when the plosive is followed by a uvular fricative.
The following words have an affricated voiceless alveolar plosive:
tand (tooth)
tanke (thought)
te (tea)
tid (time)
time (hour)
tjeneste (service)
tog (train)
tunge (tongue)
tvilling (twin)
tyve (twenty)
Many of the Danish words with an affricated voiceless alveolar plosive have a voiceless alveolar affricate in German. Compare tand/Zahn, tid/Zeit, and tog/Zug. In certain Danish dialects such as those of northern and western Jutland, a voiceless alveolar plosive is used instead of an affricated one.
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