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‖ Landsmål|ˈlantsmɔːl|
Also Landsmaal.
[Norw., f. land country + mål language.]
A literary form of Norwegian devised by the Norwegian philologist Ivar Aasen (1813–1896) from the country dialects most closely descended from Old Norse, and considered to be a ‘purer’ form of the Norwegian language than the official Riksmål or Dano-Norwegian.
The Landsmål controversy followed the appearance of Aasen's grammar and dictionary (1848 and 1850); in 1885 Landsmål was given equal status with Dano-Norwegian.
1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 374/1 By the study of the Modern Norwegian dialects and the mother language, Old Norwegian, the eminent philologist J. Aasen was led to undertake the bold project of constructing..a Norwegian–Norwegian..language, the so-called ‘Landsmål’. 1906Westm. Gaz. 10 Aug. 2/3 The party programmes are said to lack definiteness, but that of the Liberals comprises..the official recognition of the ‘Landsmal’, or Norwegian of Norway as against the Dano-Norwegian, which is at present the language of the Government. 1911[see Dano-]. 1924Glasgow Herald 14 Nov. 7 Let him perpend the circumstances of the Czech revival or of the Norwegian landsmaal movement. 1927Observer 6 Nov. 12 Now Norway has a linguistic national movement, called the Landsmaal or Real Norwegian Language-movement, which holds that the language generally used in Norway is not Norwegian but a Danish dialect, and their aim is to root out that dialect and make the Landsmaal compulsory. 1933[see Dano-]. 1957T. K. Derry Short Hist. Norway ix. 190 For the peasantry, in the west at least, landsmaal had become a shibboleth by which to distinguish the true democrat from the adherents of the language of foreign snobbery. 1961L. F. Brosnahan Sounds of Lang. ix. 205 The Landsmål, a somewhat more artificial creation based on the main dialects of the west of the country. |