Question About Language Of Letter

Hello folks, I've been having problems trying to determine the language of this late 19th century letter I found with the cover in the image. Can anyone tell me the language and if you can read it, can you also tell me if it appears the letter originated within the U.S. or was it forwarded from someone else within the U.S.? I was thining German, but the cursive handwriting is hard for me to read.
Thanks, Will

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Thanks for the help bobgggg! I would not have thought that, but then again the only Danish I really ever see is printed on Danish stamps. Yahoo and my website allows for direct linking of photos as I use it to host picture for ebay ( ebay picture services are horrible). Yahoo might have been having temp issues, but bobgggg was able to see it and it's worked in the past.
Will

I can see it clearly as well. I usually find that looking for a salutation or a closing comment (regards, sincerely etc) can assist with identifying language if the cursive writing is just too fancy like this one.

Here's the back of it.

Nope, that didn't help My usual practice doesn't work with this one!

Will,
The letter is written in old German script. This was in use until the middle of the 20th century. If you want to take a crack at deciphering it, the alphabet is below. Good luck. I never could read script worth a hoot.

Dan

Dan Great call on the script. The letter is addressed to "Liebe Franzis" (Dear Francis) and starts "Deine Brief habe ich erhalten.." (I have received your letter) And then I ran out of patience. I have work to do, but it is German and should be legible to anyone whose German is better than mine. BTW, The date of the letter is the 5th of March, 1880. It is signed "Your Mother Therese(?) Kling"

Thank you all for your help. I'm going to keep a copy of that script picture above as I know I'll need it again soon enough when I tackle the German covers. It's hard enough trying to read English handwriting on some of these old letters as it is. Sometimes I'm really happy when the letter is typed, but occasionally I get a letter with excellent handwriting.
Will

Odd.... I took a stab at Danish, because I did a google search on the surname Kling...Corning NY... A very large family all of Danish decent. Is it possible that German is a second language in Denmark ????

I was certain it was a Germanic language. German, Danish, Swedish, Norge, Dutch & English all core Germanic.