Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

landsmål

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lands-mal
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A written standard for Norwegian created by Ivar Aasen in the mid-1800s; predecessor to Nynorsk.

Example Sentences

"Political parties had to tailor their programmes according to the taste of the electorate on the basis of the Riksmål/Landsmål controversy."
"In 1885, Landsmål won official recognition from the government; in 1929 it was renamed Nynorsk ("new Norwegian")."
"Diphthongs were allowed as options in many words, often rendering them identical to the Landsmål forms but deviating from upper-middle-class speech: ben > bein ‘bone, leg’ (Landsmål: bein), løv > lauv ‘leaf’ (Landsmål: lauv). In Riksmål with optional forms, many other frequently-used words were also altered from forms which reflected upper-middle-class speech to those which were identical with Landsmål:[…]"

Etymology

From Norwegian landsmål (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry); called so by Ivar Aasen.

Origin

Source language: Norwegian

Inflected Forms

Landsmaal (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

Bokmål Høgnorsk Nynorsk Riksmål

Questions

What does landsmål mean?: A written standard for Norwegian created by Ivar Aasen in the mid-1800s; predecessor to Nynorsk.
Where does landsmål come from?: It is traced to Norwegian.

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