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    Samnorsk is a written standard of the Norwegian language that was proposed between the 1930s and the 1950s as a way to bridge the gap between the existing...
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    official policy to merge Bokmål and Nynorsk into one written standard called Samnorsk through a series of reforms has created a wide spectrum of varieties of...
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  • Through this work an official policy to merge the standards (to a common Samnorsk) through spelling reforms came to be. In line with these plans, the 1917...
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    policy to merge Nynorsk and Bokmål into a single language, to be called Samnorsk. A 1946 poll showed that this policy was supported by 79% of Norwegians...
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  • traditional riksmål, in opposition to Bokmål and Nynorsk, and especially Samnorsk. In the 1938 reform of Bokmål introduced more elements from dialects and...
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  • Norwegian language. The union was founded in 1965 as a response to the samnorsk policy (aiming to merge the two languages Nynorsk and Bokmål) prevailing...
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  • H. Hauge. The Høgnorsk movement grew out of opposition to the official Samnorsk policy which aimed at leveling out the differences between Nynorsk and...
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    conservative stance in Norwegian politics, and was contrasted with the "radical" Samnorsk language, an attempt to merge Bokmål with Nynorsk which was promoted by...
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  • create a combined version of the two variants (Nynorsk and Bokmål), called Samnorsk. Gradual changes in the spelling and grammatical rules in both forms were...
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  • into one hypothesised official Norwegian language known at the time as Samnorsk. This project was later abandoned and Nynorsk and Bokmål remain the two...
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    country. Later, attempts were made to reconcile the two standards into Samnorsk, or "Common Norwegian", although this never came to fruition. Bokmål, the...
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  • systems comprising roughly 28 billion individuals. Their main language is Samnorsk, the Norwegian term for a hypothetical unification of the Bokmål and Nynorsk...
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    Danish-Norwegian written language tradition. It consistently opposed the government samnorsk (roughly translated "collective Norwegian" or "together Norwegian"; the...
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  • traditional language of the educated elite of Norway), uses the radical Samnorsk language as an expression of the lack of culture of the salamanders. Jens...
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  • from 1950 until her death. She was a co-founder of "Foreldreaksjonen mot samnorsk" in 1951, and established the periodical Frisprog in 1953, which she edited...
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  • history, notably The New Norse Language Movement. He has devoted himself for Samnorsk—towards language equality between Norway's two competing written language...
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  • the 1938 orthographic reform and the common language variety known as Samnorsk. Iversen retired in 1952 and also received the Fridtjof Nansen Prize for...
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    language also gave him nationwide academic recognition. He championed the Samnorsk language reform, the declared aim of which was to consolidate the two standards...
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    association championed the Riksmål standard of written Norwegian and opposed the Samnorsk line. The chairman Thorstein Diesen was, however, ambivalent towards this...
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