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Høgnorsk
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Also known as Hognorsk, nn-hognorsk, High Norwegian

Høgnorsk (; meaning High Norwegian) is a term for varieties of the Norwegian language from Nynorsk that reject most of the official reforms that have been introduced since the creation of . Høgnorsk typically accepts the initial reforms that, among other things, removed certain silent letters of etymological origin, while keeping most of the grammar intact.

Key facts

Language.name
Norwegian Høgnorsk
Language.region
Norway
Language.era
19th century to present
Language.familycolor
Indo-European
Language.fam2
Germanic
Language.fam3
North Germanic
Language.fam4
West Scandinavian
Language.fam5
Norwegian
Language.fam6
Norwegian dialects
Language.ancestor
Old Norse
Language.ancestor2
Old West Norse
Language.ancestor3
Old Norwegian
Language.ancestor4
Middle Norwegian
Language.ancestor5
Norwegian dialects
Language.script
Latin
Language.iso1
no
Language.iso2
nor
Language.iso3
nor

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Høgnorsk (; meaning High Norwegian) is a term for varieties of the Norwegian language from Nynorsk that reject most of the official reforms that have been introduced since the creation of . Høgnorsk typically accepts the initial reforms that, among other things, removed certain silent letters of etymological origin, while keeping most of the grammar intact.

Torleiv Hannaas is often credited for introducing the term in an article in 1922. He used it analogously to High German (), pointing out that Ivar Aasen, the creator of Nynorsk orthography, had especially valued the dialects of the mountainous areas of middle and western Norway, as opposed to the dialects of the lowlands of eastern Norway, which Hannaas called (Flat Norwegian, like ).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Høgnorsk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.