Everything about Nynorsk totally explained
Nynorsk (lit. "New Norwegian") is one of the two official
Norwegian standard languages, the other being
Bokmål. Just above 10% of the Norwegian population use Nynorsk as their primary written language..
In Norwegian,
Nynorsk also covers the
modern Norwegian dialects, upon which the standard language is based. The standard language was created by
Ivar Aasen during the 1800s to provide a Norwegian alternative to the
Danish language (upon which Bokmål is based) which was commonly written in Norway at the time.
Writing and speech
Spoken Norwegian,
Swedish and
Danish form a
continuum of
mutually intelligible dialects and
sociolects, linguistically speaking, forming a common continental Scandinavian language. Nynorsk is the smallest of the four major standard languages within this broad speech community alongside Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish and Danish.
Unlike most standard languages, there's no codified standard for
spoken Nynorsk and Bokmål. Nynorsk standard language is nevertheless used in broadcasting, on stage, and by a few individuals. Bokmål has a much larger basis in the middle-class urban speech, especially that found in the eastern part of Southern Norway. However, most Norwegians don't speak this so called
Standard Østnorsk, but other Norwegian dialects. These dialects are the spoken basis for Nynorsk, and many Nynorsk supporters regard them as the standard way to speak Nynorsk, even if the majority of dialect speakers use Bokmål in writing. As such, Nynorsk isn't a
minority language, though it shares many of the problems that minority languages face.
Each
municipality can declare one of the two languages as its official language, or it can remain "language neutral". 27% of the municipalities making up 12% of the population have declared Nynorsk as their official language. The main language used in primary schools normally follows the official language of its municipality, and is decided by referendum within the local school district. The number of school districts and pupils using primarily Nynorsk has decreased since the top in the 1940s, even in Nynorsk municipalities.
As of 2006, fewer than 14% of pupils in primary school are taught in Nynorsk. Others claim that Nynorsk is unintelligible, despite most Scandinavians using their own language when communicating with people from other Scandinavian nations.
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