Bokmål

Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Bokmål
norsk • bokmål
Pronunciation	[nɔʂk] • [ˈbuːkmɔːl]
Native to	Norway, Denmark
Native speakers	~ 5.32 million (date missing)
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
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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.

Bokmål Media

Knud Knudsen, often called the "father of Bokmål"
Poster from a campaign against mandatory Samnorsk, c. 1955
Map of the official language forms of Norwegian municipalities. Red is Bokmål, blue is Nynorsk and gray denotes neutral areas.