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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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 NERFINISHED
culturalContext Danish–Norwegian union culture
developedInto Bokmål NERFINISHED
Riksmål NERFINISHED
distinguishedFrom Landsmål NERFINISHED
Nynorsk NERFINISHED
endonymLanguage Norwegian NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

North Germanic languages NERFINISHED
primaryRegion Norwegian civil service
urban Norway
relatedTo Bokmål NERFINISHED
Riksmål NERFINISHED
replacedBy Bokmål NERFINISHED
Nynorsk NERFINISHED
scriptDirection left-to-right
status historical
no longer an official written standard
subclassOf Danish language
Norwegian language NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
usedUntil 19th century
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Middle Norwegian hasDescendant Dano-Norwegian