Landsmål

English

Etymology

From Norwegian landsmål (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry); called so by Ivar Aasen.

Proper noun

Landsmål

1. A written standard for Norwegian created by Ivar Aasen in the mid-1800s; predecessor to Nynorsk.
   • 2000, Gyula Décsy, The Linguistic Identity of Europe: The 62 Languages of Europe Classified in Functional Zones, Eurolingua, →ISBN, page 84:

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

   • 2000, Frankie B. Shackelford, transl., Ave Eva: A Norwegian Tragedy, Xenos Books, translation of Ave Eva: Herregårdsroman by Edvard Hoem, page viii:

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

   • 2014, Ernst Håkon Jahr, “Two Norwegian written standards: is linguistic reconciliation possible? Early twentieth century up to the 1917 language reforms”, in Language Planning as a Sociolinguistic Experiment: The Case of Modern Norwegian, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, section “The language reform of 1917”, subsection “Concrete changes to Riksmål”, page 93:

     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

• Landsmaal

Translations

written standard for Norwegian

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: landsmål

  Nynorsk: landsmål

See also

• (other Norwegian varieties): Bokmål, Høgnorsk, Nynorsk, Riksmål

Further reading

• Nynorsk § Ivar Aasen's work on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Dallmans