Dano-Norwegian

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Dano-Norwegian is a historical written standard of the Norwegian language heavily influenced by Danish, used in Norway from the union period until the development of modern Bokmål.

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Dano-Norwegian canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Danish-influenced Norwegian
historical written language standard
written variety of Norwegian
alsoKnownAs dansk-norsk
dansk-norsk skriftspråk
basedOn written Danish
country Denmark–Norway
culturalContext Danish–Norwegian union culture
developedInto Bokmål
Riksmål
distinguishedFrom Landsmål
Nynorsk
endonymLanguage Norwegian
linked to: Norwegian language
hasLanguageCode none (no separate ISO 639 code)
historicalPeriod early modern period
union between Denmark and Norway
historicalRole basis for modern Bokmål orthography
dominant written language in Norway during Danish rule
influencedBy Danish language
languageFamily Germanic languages
Indo-European languages
North Germanic languages
primaryRegion Norwegian civil service
urban Norway
relatedTo Bokmål
Riksmål
replacedBy Bokmål
Nynorsk
scriptDirection left-to-right
status historical
no longer an official written standard
subclassOf Danish language
Norwegian language
written Norwegian
typologicalFeature Norwegian phonology in spoken form
strong lexical similarity to Danish
usageContext administration
literature
official documents
usedBy Norwegian bureaucracy
Norwegian educated elite
usedIn Norway
usedUntil 19th century
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Middle Norwegian hasDescendant Dano-Norwegian