Posted by Thomas on 7/5/2008, 21:57:18, in reply to "Video from Crownprincess Mette-Marit's visit at a Norwegian boat producer"
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News clip from Crownprince Haakon visiting the home of Norwegian poet Ivar Aasen. Ivar Aasen travelled thrue Norway to collect folk songs, old stories and most of all Norwegian Dialects. He thereafter created or constructed a written language, a people's language based on the language and very different dialects spoken in the fjord and mountains of Norway, thinking and very rightly so that this was based on the original language of Norway, with ties to the viking era and after. In other words another language than the Danish-Norwegian language that was spoken in the cities and heavily influensed by the danish period that lasted for ca 600 years. Today Norway has three official langueages. Bokmål (Dano-Norwegian), Nynorsk (Ivar Aasens lauguage as spoken by people outside the cities and the third the Sami language ofcours. Bokmål and Nynorsk is closely related, and most people have no problem understanding both "dialects", but there has been large conflicts betveen Nynorsk and Bokmål afterwards.
Video: http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/130606
More info in English on Ivar Aasen and his work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Aasen
More info on Nynorsk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nynorsk
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