Bokmål

bokmål bokmal bókmál English Etymology en :bor nb:bokmål 1 en no bokmål book language. The equivalent non bókamál was used in this sense as a name for Latin, as it was the primary language used for writing of biblical work in much of the Middle Ages. The modern Icelandic name for Norwegian Bokmål is is bókmál. When dialect research in western Norway was pioneered by Ivar Aasen in the 1850s, no bogmaal took on the meaning of written standard language, as opposed to spoken dialects and Aasen's synthesized no landsmaal. The two Norwegian languages, standardized in 1907, changed names in 1929 from no landsmål to no nynorsk and from no riksmål to no bokmål. Pronunciation en /ˈbɒk.mɔːl/ en /ˈboʊk.mɔːl/ US, also en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Bokmål.wav Southern England Proper noun One of the two major written standards of Norwegian, literally meaning “book language”. en-GB Philip Oltermann Jon Fosse’s Nobel prize announces his overdue arrival on the global stage w:The Guardian 2023-10-05 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/05/jon-fosses-nobel-prize-announces-his-overdue-arrival-on-the-global-stage 0261-3077 While 85-90% of Norwegians today use Bokmål as their written standard, Nynorsk is only used by about 10-15% of the population. Fosse’s English translator Damion Searls says many Nynorsk speakers see him “as a kind of national hero” for his championing of the language. https://web.archive.org/web/20240106221008/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/05/jon-fosses-nobel-prize-announces-his-overdue-arrival-on-the-global-stage Synonyms en Norwegian Bokmål Translations language Armenian: hy բուկմոլ Catalan: ca bokmål m Cherokee: chr ᏉᎧᎹᎵ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 巴克摩挪威語 Bakèmó Nuówēiyǔ, cmn 書面挪威語 Shūmiàn Nuówēiyǔ Danish: da bokmål n Dhivehi: dv ބޯކިމާލު Dutch: nl Bokmål n Faroese: fo bókmál n Finnish: fi kirjanorja French: fr bokmål m Galician: gl bokmål m Georgian: ka ბუკმოლი German: de Bokmål n, de Buchsprache f Icelandic: is bókmál n Irish: ga Bocmál m Japanese: ja ブークモール Būkumōru Korean: ko ^보크몰, ko ^복말 Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kmr bokmål f Latvian: lv būkmols m Norwegian: Bokmål: nb bokmål n Nynorsk: nn bokmål n Polish: pl bokmål m Portuguese: pt bokmal m Russian: ru бу́кмол m Sami: Northern Sami: se girjedárogiella Spanish: es bokmål m Swedish: sv bokmål n Ukrainian: uk бу́кмол m See also no nb en høgnorsk, en Høgnorsk en landsmål, en Landsmål en nynorsk, en Nynorsk en riksmål, en Riksmål en samnorsk, en Samnorsk References Further reading 1 nb nob nob en Languages German de: Etymology de :bor no:bokmål<t:book language> de no bokmål book language. Pronunciation de De-Bokmål.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de De-Bokmål2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Proper noun n,-:s en Bokmål One of the two major written standards of Norwegian Related terms de Nynorsk de Languages