Landsmål and Høgnorsk; Destroyed by the Council? - Landsmål was one of the two original Norwegian written standards, following the end of the use of Danish. It was created by Ivar Aasen, a linguist who used the dialects of Norway, most prominantly in Vest-Noreg (West Norway), to draft a new written language based on actual Norwegian, and not 'Norwegianised Danish', unlike Bjørnson, whose Riksmål was very heavily based on the Danish Language. Aasen was the first widely acknowledged Norwegian linguist, and his work was very representative of the contemporary language, and was a real shift towards a proper national identity. - As with Riksmål, Språkrådet (The Language Council) began to introduce reforms aiming to improve the language over time. The first of these was passed in 1901, but until 1938, these were mostly orthographical, for example: - Before 1917 - Orsak, eg gløymde å gjeva bilætet til deg. After 1917 - Årsak, eg gløymde å gjeva biletet til deg. English - Sorry,
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