one of the two mutually intelligible official forms of written Norwegian: it also exists in spoken form and is derived from the dialect of W and N Norway
Also called: Landsmål. Compare Bokmål
Word origin
Norwegian: new Norse
Nynorsk in American English
(niˈnɔrsk)
noun
the newer of the two standard varieties of Norwegian, created in the mid-1800s and based on dialects of the language as spoken in rural areas