Landsmål

English Etymology From en no landsmål (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry); called so by Ivar Aasen. Proper noun A written standard for Norwegian created by Ivar Aasen in the mid-1800s; predecessor to Nynorsk. en Gyula Décsy The Linguistic Identity of Europe: The 62 Languages of Europe Classified in Functional Zones Eurolingua 2000 84 0-931922-65-8 Political parties had to tailor their programmes according to the taste of the electorate on the basis of the Riksmål/Landsmål controversy. en Frankie B. Shackelford Ave Eva: A Norwegian Tragedy w:Xenos Books 2000 viii Ave Eva: Herregårdsroman w:Edvard Hoem In 1885, Landsmål won official recognition from the government; in 1929 it was renamed Nynorsk ("new Norwegian"). en w:Ernst Håkon Jahr Two Norwegian written standards: is linguistic reconciliation possible? Early twentieth century up to the 1917 language reforms Language Planning as a Sociolinguistic Experiment: The Case of Modern Norwegian w:Edinburgh University Press 2014 section “The language reform of 1917”, subsection “Concrete changes to Riksmål” 93 978 0 7486 7834 1 Diphthongs were allowed as options in many words, often rendering them identical to the Landsmål forms but deviating from upper-middle-class speech: ben > bein ‘bone, leg’ (Landsmål: bein), løv > lauv ‘leaf’ (Landsmål: lauv). In Riksmål with optional forms, many other frequently-used words were also altered from forms which reflected upper-middle-class speech to those which were identical with Landsmål: Alternative forms en Landsmaal Translations written standard for Norwegian Norwegian: Bokmål: nb landsmål Nynorsk: nn landsmål Polish: pl landsmål m See also other Norwegian varieties: en Bokmål, en Høgnorsk, en Nynorsk, en Riksmål Further reading Nynorsk#Ivar Aasen's work Nynorsk § Ivar Aasen's work Anagrams en aadllmns Dallmans en Languages