Fernando Rodr�guez <····@ya.com> writes:
> Well, since we are _way_ off-topic, I guess no one will complain
> about my question: what's the difference between nynorsk and bokmal?
I shamelessly stole this snippet from
<URL:http://kdictionaries.com/newsletter/kdn10-7.html>:
Bokm�l and nynorsk are two varieties of the same language. since
Norway is a geographically large country, it has many oral dialects
too. In the new Norwegian state established in 1814 (or 1905, when
it became independent from Sweden), it was a strong wish for the new
nation to have its own national language. By and by it was launched
as a principle that every person should have the right to choose her
or his own written variant, as close to the oral dialect as
possible, and this is still an important credo in Norwegian language
planning. As a result, the two written standards favor dialects from
either Eastern or Western Norway. The Eastern dialects are closest
to bokm�l, which geographically as well as demographically covers
the main parts of the country, while nynorsk is a Western standard,
above all reflecting Aasen's own dialect from Sunnm�re, in
northwestern Norway.
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