Talk:Norwegian
Add topicLatest comment: 10 years ago by Some Gadget Geek in topic Proposed merge with Norsk
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Bokmål
[edit]Bokmål/Riksmål should not be called "Dano-Norwegian", as this is considered to be a derogatory term by in Norway. Nynorsk was not an attempt to find "the true Norwegian language", but to create a written language based on dialects that hadn't been influenced by Danish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.167.96.196 (talk) 18:28, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
- I have expanded a little on the nynorsk explanation, as I find just listing the literal translation insufficient and somewhat misleading. I suppose an explanation of the term "bokmål" could be given as well, as just the literal translation says very little. If I remember correctly it historically referred to Latin, which was the language of writing rather than speech. When riksmål was renamed bokmål it was also, for a majority of the population at least, a language of writing rather than speech. Although, as a Norwegianised Danish it was obviously much closer to spoken Norwegian than Latin ever had been. It is a lot of information to squeeze into one sentence though, so I will leave it for someone else to sort out. ;) -- Nidator T / C 14:37, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
- Actually, absent any evidence that either Bokmål or Nynorsk is referred to in English simply as "Norwergian," neither belongs on this page at all. --Tkynerd (talk) 21:25, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Similar to how svensk and svenska redirect to Swedish. <<< SOME GADGET GEEK >>> (talk) 15:23, 28 April 2016 (UTC)