In 1898, the Dane Anker Jensen (1878–1937) published a pioneering sociolinguistic study in which he investigated the linguistic
situation in Aaby, then a village and parish located just west of Aarhus (the second-largest city of Denmark, in Jutland), and today an
integrated part of the city. An introduction to Anker Jensen’s life and work, including a discussion of the quantitative sociolinguistic
approach and the results of his Aaby study, is provided in Bøegh et al. (2023). Here, we present our translation into
English of Anker Jensen’s Aaby study. The study originally appeared as Jensen, Anker. 1898. Sproglige forhold i Åby sogn, Århus amt [The
Linguistic Situation in the Parish of Aaby, Aarhus County]. Dania 5: 213–231.
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