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bokmål

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Bok⋅mål

[book-mawl]
–noun
a literary form of Norwegian, derived from the Danish writing of urban Norwegians: one of the two official forms of written Norwegian.
Compare Nynorsk.


Origin:
1935–40; < Norw: book language
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Bok·mål   (bŏŏk'môl', bōk'-)   
n.  See Dano-Norwegian.

[Norwegian : bok, book; see bhāgo- in Indo-European roots + mål, language.]
Da·no-Nor·we·gian   (dā'nō-nôr-wē'jən)   
n.  An official literary form of Norwegian based on written Danish. Also called Bokmål, Riksmål.
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