Bokmål

Norwegian Bokmål
norsk   •   bokmål
Pronunciation	[nɔʂk] • [ˈbuːkmɔːl]
Native to	Norway, Denmark
Native speakers	~ 5.32 million
Language family	Indo-European Germanic North Germanic West Scandinavian Norwegian Bokmål
Standard forms	Bokmål (official) Riksmål (unofficial)
Writing system	Latin (Norwegian alphabet)
Official status
Official language in	Norway Nordic Council
Regulated by	Norwegian Language Council (Bokmål proper) Norwegian Academy (Riksmål)
Language codes
ISO 639-1	nb
ISO 639-2	nob
ISO 639-3	nob
Linguasphere	52-AAA-ba to -be & 52-AAA-cd to -cg

Bokmål (UK: /ˈbuːkmɔːl/, US: /ˈbʊk-, ˈboʊk-/;^[1][2][3][4] lit. 'book language')^[5] is one of two official written forms of Norwegian; the other is Nynorsk. Bokmål is used by 85-90%^[6] of the population in Norway and the usual way to teach to foreign students.

Bokmål is regulated by the government's Norwegian Language Council. A more conservative orthographic standard is called Riksmål, which is regulated by the non-governmental Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature.

References

1. "Bokmål". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
2. "Bokmål". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
3. "Bokmål" Archived 2019-05-01 at the Wayback Machine (US) and "Bokmål". Oxford Dictionaries UK Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
4. "Bokmål". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
5. Vikør, Lars. "Bokmål". Store norske leksikon. Oslo: University of Oslo. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
6. Vikør, Lars. "Fakta om norsk språk". Retrieved 2009-08-04.