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Publication details [#28659]

Haugen, Einar. 1993. Planning for a Standard Language in modern Norway. Anthropological Linguistics 35 (1-4) : 109–123.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | language change | language contact | language planning | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

Bokmal | Nynorsk

Place, Publisher

Indiana University

ISBN

0003-5483

Annotation

This paper deals with the Norwegian language planning experiment to fuse the two competing written forms, Bokmal and Nynorsk, into a new, national language that embodies the best features of both stylistic norms.