Bokmål

EtymologyEdit

From bok (“book”) and mål (in this sense meaning “language”), with the meaning “the language used in books”. The Old Norse equivalent 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 pioneerd 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.

Proper nounEdit

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Bokmål

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Bokmål

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

See alsoEdit

Bokmål edition of Wiktionary

• landsmål, Landsmål
• nynorsk, Nynorsk
• riksmål, Riksmål

TranslationsEdit

External linksEdit

• ISO 639-1 code nb, ISO 639-3 code nob
• Ethnologue entry for Bokmål, nb

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Bokmål

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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Norwegian bokmål.

NounEdit

Bokmål n

1. Bokmål (language)

Related termsEdit

• Nynorsk