Nynorsk

American

[nee-nawrsk, -nohrsk, ny-nawshk] / ˈni nɔrsk, -noʊrsk, ˈnüˌnɔʃk /

noun

a literary language based on western Norwegian dialects and Old Norse and in 1885 adopted as one of the two official languages of Norway.

Nynorsk British

/ ˈniːnɔːsk, ˈnyːnɔːsk /

noun

Also called: Landsmål. 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 Compare Bokmål

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Etymology

Origin of Nynorsk

< Norwegian: literally, new Norwegian

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