Høgnorsk
Sign in to saveHøgnorsk (; meaning High Norwegian) is a term for varieties of the Norwegian language from Nynorsk that reject most of the official reforms that have been introduced since the creation of . Høgnorsk typically accepts the initial reforms that, among other things, removed certain silent letters of etymological origin, while keeping most of the grammar intact.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Norwegian Høgnorsk
- Language.region
- Norway
- Language.era
- 19th century to present
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Germanic
- Language.fam3
- North Germanic
- Language.fam4
- West Scandinavian
- Language.fam5
- Norwegian
- Language.fam6
- Norwegian dialects
- Language.ancestor
- Old Norse
- Language.ancestor2
- Old West Norse
- Language.ancestor3
- Old Norwegian
- Language.ancestor4
- Middle Norwegian
- Language.ancestor5
- Norwegian dialects
- Language.script
- Latin
- Language.iso1
- no
- Language.iso2
- nor
- Language.iso3
- nor
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Høgnorsk (; meaning High Norwegian) is a term for varieties of the Norwegian language from Nynorsk that reject most of the official reforms that have been introduced since the creation of . Høgnorsk typically accepts the initial reforms that, among other things, removed certain silent letters of etymological origin, while keeping most of the grammar intact.
Torleiv Hannaas is often credited for introducing the term in an article in 1922. He used it analogously to High German (), pointing out that Ivar Aasen, the creator of Nynorsk orthography, had especially valued the dialects of the mountainous areas of middle and western Norway, as opposed to the dialects of the lowlands of eastern Norway, which Hannaas called (Flat Norwegian, like ).