Bokmål

Also known as Norwegian Bokmål, bokmal, bokmaal

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.

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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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Language.iso2: nob
Language.iso3: nob
Language.name: Norwegian Bokmål
Language.states: Norway
Language.speakers: none
Language.speakers2: (written only)
Language.familycolor: Indo-European
Language.fam2: Germanic
Language.fam3: North Germanic
Language.fam4: East Scandinavian
Language.fam5: Danish and Norwegian
Language.fam6: Dano-Norwegian
Language.ancestor: Old Norse
Language.ancestor2: Old East Norse
Language.ancestor3: Early Old Danish
Language.ancestor4: Late Old Danish
Language.ancestor5: Dano-Norwegian
Language.ancestor6: Riksmål

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described at URL: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data/Documentation/Languages/nb
Commons category: Bokmål
Wikimedia language code: nb
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 4000000
native label: bokmål
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/NOB
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Contents

History
Controversy
Riksmål and Bokmål
Språkloven
Terminology
Characteristics
Differences from Danish
Differences from the traditional Oslo dialect
See also
References

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.