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Bokmål

Bokmål

See also: bokmål and bokmal

English

Proper noun

Bokmål

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

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Translations

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian bokmål ‎(“Bokmål bedeutet Buchsprache”).

Noun

Bokmål n

  1. Bokmål (language)

Related terms

bokmål

bokmål

See also: bokmal and Bokmål

Danish

Noun

bokmål n ‎(definite singular bokmålet) (uncountable)

  1. Bokmål (one of Norway's two official languages)

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbuːkmoːɽ/, /ˈbuːkmoːl/
  • Rhymes: -oːɽ, -oːl

Noun

bokmål n ‎(definite singular bokmålet) (uncountable)

  1. Bokmål (one of Norway's two official languages)

See also

  • østnorsk
  • riksmål
  • samnorsk
  • stasjonsspråk
  • trøndersk
  • vestnorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bokmål n ‎(definite singular bokmålet) (uncountable)

  1. Bokmål (as above)

Swedish

Etymology

bok +‎ mål, from the Danish bogmaal used in Norway since the 1850s to mean written standard language as opposed to dialects. Since 1929 the official name for the written language previously known as riksmål.

Noun

bokmål n

  1. Bokmål (language)

Declension

Etymology

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.

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