bokmål

Swedish - Turkish

Definition of bokmål in Swedish Turkish dictionary

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English - English

Definition of bokmål in English English dictionary

One of the two major Norwegian languages, literally meaning “book language”

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bokmal

one of two official languages of Norway; closely related to Danish

Norwegian Bokmål

One of the two major Norwegian written standard languages spoken by 85-90% of the population in Norway

Etymology

() From bok (“book”) and mål (in this sense meaning “language”), with the meaning “the language used in books”. The Old Norse equivalent bókamál was used in this sense as a name for Latin, as it was the primary language used for writing of biblical work in much of the Middle Ages. The modern Icelandic name for Norwegian Bokmål is bókmál. When dialect research in western Norway was pioneerd by Ivar Aasen in the 1850s, bogmaal took on the meaning of written standard language, as opposed to spoken dialects and Aasen's synthesized landsmaal. The two Norwegian languages, standardized in 1907, changed names in 1929 from landsmål to nynorsk and from riksmål to bokmål.