Riksmål
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Riksmål is a conservative written Norwegian language form or spelling standard, meaning the National Language, closely related and now almost identical to the dominant form of Bokmål, known as Moderat
Nobel Prize winner Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson introduced the name "riksmål" in Norway and founded the Riksmål Society.
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Nynorsk
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Nynorsk is one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian lang
Riksmål
…orthographic differences between written Norwegian and Danish. The name Riksmål was adopted as the official name of the language, to differentiate it from Landsmål (now Nynorsk); in 1929, the name of the official language was changed to Bokmål. From 1938, spelling reforms introduced by the Labour government met…
Ivar Aasen (drawing by Olav Rusti)
The Norwegian romantic nationalism movement sought to identify and celebrate the genuinely Norwegian.