Bokmål
Sign in to saveBokmål (; , ; ) is one of the official written standards for the Norwegian language, alongside Nynorsk. Bokmål is by far the most used written form of Norwegian today, as it is adopted by around 90% of the population in Norway. There is no countrywide standard or agreement on the pronunciation of Bokmål and the spoken dialects vary greatly.
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Bokmål is one of two official written standards of Norwegian and is used by approximately 90% of Norway's population in their writing. While Bokmål provides a consistent written form of Norwegian, there is no single standard way to pronounce it, and people across Norway speak many different dialects.
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10 sectionsContents
- History
- Controversy
- Riksmål and Bokmål
- Språkloven
- Terminology
- Characteristics
- Differences from Danish
- Differences from the traditional Oslo dialect
- See also
- References
Bokmål (; , ; ) is one of the official written standards for the Norwegian language, alongside Nynorsk. Bokmål is by far the most used written form of Norwegian today, as it is adopted by around 90% of the population in Norway. There is no countrywide standard or agreement on the pronunciation of Bokmål and the spoken dialects vary greatly.
Bokmål is regulated by the governmental Language Council of Norway. A related, more conservative orthographic standard, commonly known as Riksmål, is regulated by the non-governmental Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature. The written standard is a Norwegianised variety of the Danish language.