Noregs Mållag announced Nynorsk Day would be expanded into a Nynorsk Week from the 6 to the 12 of May
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Ivar Andreas Aasen
Ivar Andreas Aasen was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet. He is best known for having assembled one of the two official written versions of the Norwegian language, Nynorsk, from various dialects.
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Born 5 August 1813 · Died 23 September 1896 · Q106812
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1896· 1 entry
Died 1896-09-23.
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1864· 1 entry
Aasen published Danish: Norsk Grammatik, the definitive grammar of Nynorsk, and in 1873 he published the final version of his dictionary, now titled [Norsk Ordbog] Error: {{Lang}}: invalid parameter: |4= (help)
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1856· 1 entry
Published Norske Ordsprog, a treatise on Norwegian proverbs
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1848· 2 entries
Followed by the more well-known Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects (Danish: Ordbog over det Norske Folkesprog) in 1850
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And 1850, respectively, he published a grammar and a dictionary of spoken Norwegian
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1847· 2 entries
Aasen continued his research and development of the language which he called Landsmål, publishing new versions of both the grammar and the dictionary
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Surrounding himself with books and keeping a low public profile
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1842· 1 entry
Aasen began receiving an additional stipend enabling him to give his entire attention to his philological investigations
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1841· 1 entry
Met Bishop Jacob Neumann, who would publish excerpts of his work in the Bergens Stiftstidende ("Bergen Diocese Newspaper")
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1833· 1 entry
Was tutored by Hans Conrad Thoresen, the husband of the eminent writer Magdalene Thoresen, in the parish of Herø (now Herøy Municipality), where he learned basic Latin
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1813· 1 entry
Born 1813-08-05.
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