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    Ivar Andreas Aasen (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈîːvɑr ˈòːsn̩]; 5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright...
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  • Ivar Aasen-sambandet (The Ivar Aasen Union) is an umbrella organization of associations and individuals promoting the use of the Høgnorsk variant of the...
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  • Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language (Landsmål), parallel to the Dano-Norwegian...
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  • He used it analogously to High German (Hochdeutsch), pointing out that Ivar Aasen, the creator of Nynorsk orthography, had especially valued the dialects...
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  • journalist and poet Augusta Aasen (1878–1920), Norwegian politician Elisabeth Aasen (1922–2009), Norwegian politician Ivar Aasen (1813–1896), Norwegian philologist...
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    officially changed to Bokmål in 1929. Nynorsk was developed by the linguist Ivar Aasen in the 1850s, based on rural, spoken Norwegian, rather than the cultured...
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    nationalistic movement strove for the development of a new written Norwegian. Ivar Aasen, a botanist and self-taught linguist, began his work to create a new Norwegian...
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    designed by Norwegian architect Christian Christie. Norwegian national poet, Ivar Aasen, wrote a poem entitled Haraldshaugen to commemorate the event. The monument...
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  • King of Dublin Ivar, ring name of American professional wrestler Todd Smith Ivar Aasen, Norwegian lexicographer, creator of Nynorsk Ivar Aavatsmark, Norwegian...
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    stating, "There simply is no fixed and unambiguous definition of fjell." Ivar Aasen defined fjell as a "tall berg", primarily referring to a berg that reaches...
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    Movement and the Norwegian Youth Association. The Target Movement led by Ivar Aasen clamed there were two cultures in Norway, the upper class consisting of...
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    historical linguistics with a dissertation titled Noko om Ivar Aasen i åra 1840–60 (Ivar Aasen in the Years 1840–1860). In 1950 and 1951 he worked on the...
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    language until 1885.[citation needed] In the early 1840s, young linguist Ivar Aasen traveled the countryside gathering up the words and grammar used there...
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    spokesman for the Norwegian left-wing movement. In this respect, he supported Ivar Aasen, and joined forces in the political struggles in the 1860s and 1870s....
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  • Nordmannen ("The Norwegian") is a Norwegian poem written by Ivar Aasen. The poem is better known in Norway as Mellom bakkar og berg (Literally "Between...
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  • from roðsmenn or roðskarlar, meaning seafarers or rowers.[page needed] Ivar Aasen, the Norwegian philologist and lexicographer, noted proto-Germanic root...
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    Ludvig Daae hired the young Ivar Aasen as a private teacher for his children. It was during his time at Solnør that Ivar Aasen formulated his Nynorsk program...
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  • Bygdemål (originally termed landsmål by Ivar Aasen, used before 1929, when landsmål began to refer to Nynorsk as a written language) refers to traditional...
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    which until then had the greatest influence on Norwegian high music; Ivar Aasen, a linguist who conducted analyses of vocabulary, idioms, and grammar...
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    concerns the tale "The Gardvord Beats up the Troll" collected by Ivar Aasen, and Aasen's dictionary glosses gardvord as 'nisse, vætte', as a thing believed...
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  • the months have also been used in Scandinavia, the Norwegian linguist Ivar Aasen wrote down the following months in his dictionary, coming in this order:...
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    Haugaland Ryfylke Jæren Dalane A Tone Damli Aaberge, singer, songwriter Ivar Aasen, philologist, lexicographer, playwright and poet Peter C. Assersen, Rear...
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    horse (or buck goat)" in the Great Norwegian Encyclopedia (SNL), and Ivar Aasen's Norwegian-Danish dictionary. In the story, there is almost no grass left...
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  • close acquaintance of the philologist Ivar Aasen; it was through Aarflot's book collection that the young Aasen had access to his first reading material...
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  • standard Riksmål, in 1929 renamed Bokmål ('book tongue'). The philologist Ivar Aasen (1813–1896) considered urban and upper-class Dano-Norwegian too similar...
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    in spoken Danish and Swedish, a tendency which spread to Bokmål too. Ivar Aasen treated the dative case in detail in his work, Norsk Grammatik (1848)...
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    said that Northern Sámi was better described than Norwegian was before Ivar Aasen published his Grammar of the Norwegian Dialects. Northern Sámi was and...
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  • Aaronsohn (1888–1948, Palestine/France, nf) Aarudhra (1925–1998, India, nf/p) Ivar Aasen (1813–1896, Norway, d/p/nf) Aarudhra (1925–1998, India, p/d) Gjorgji Abadžiev...
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  • – Pavlos Kalligas, Greek jurist, politician (b. 1814) September 23 – Ivar Aasen, Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet (b. 1813)...
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  • the Volda University College in 2001, and has been affiliated with the Ivar Aasen Centre. Profile at Dagbladet "Sørbø, Jan Inge". Store norske leksikon...
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