Meaning of Landsmål | Babel Free

Definitions

A written standard for Norwegian created by Ivar Aasen in the mid-1800s; predecessor to Nynorsk.

Examples

“Political parties had to tailor their programmes according to the taste of the electorate on the basis of the Riksmål/Landsmål controversy.”

“In 1885, Landsmål won official recognition from the government; in 1929 it was renamed Nynorsk ("new Norwegian").”

“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:[…]”

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