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Bokmål

See also: bokmål, bokmal, and bókmál

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Borrowed from Norwegian bokmål (literally “book language”). The equivalent Old Norse 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 bókmál. When dialect research in western Norway was pioneered by Ivar Aasen in the 1850s, bogmaal took on the meaning of written standard language, as opposed to spoken dialects and Aasen's synthesized landsmaal. The two Norwegian languages, standardized in 1907, changed names in 1929 from landsmål to nynorsk, and from riksmål to bokmål.

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Bokmål

  1. One of the two major written standards of Norwegian, literally meaning “book language”.

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Bokmål edition of Wiktionary

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Borrowed from Norwegian bokmål (“book language”).

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Bokmål n (proper noun, strong, genitive Bokmål or Bokmåls)

  1. Bokmål (One of the two major written standards of Norwegian)

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