biography
| name: |
Aasen, Ivar (Andreas)
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pronunciation:
[awsen]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1813–96)
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| biography:
| Philologist, lexicographer, and writer, born in Sunnmøre, W Norway. A fervent nationalist, he was the creator of the ‘national language’ called Landsmål (later known as Nynorsk, ‘New Norwegian’), based on W Norwegian dialects. It eventually achieved recognition alongside the official Dano-Norwegian Riksmål (‘language of the realm’) in 1885. |
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