Knud Knudsen
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Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
linguist
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
. He was involved in the development
Norwegian language struggle
The Norwegian language struggle is an ongoing controversy within Norwegian culture and politics related to spoken and written Norwegian. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, Danish was the standard written language of Norway due to Danish rule...
of the Riksmål and Bokmål
Bokmål
Bokmål is one of two official Norwegian written standard languages, the other being Nynorsk. Bokmål is used by 85–90% of the population in Norway, and is the standard most commonly taught to foreign students of the Norwegian language....
form of the written Norwegian language
Norwegian language
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
. He was also one of the first to propose Norwegianization, the rewriting of loanwords into a Norwegian spelling (e.g. turning chauffeur
Chauffeur
A chauffeur is a person employed to drive a passenger motor vehicle, especially a luxury vehicle such as a large sedan or limousine.Originally such drivers were always personal servants of the vehicle owner, but now in many cases specialist chauffeur service companies, or individual drivers provide...
into sjåfør).
Works
- Haandbog i dansk-norsk sproglære, (1856)
- Er norsk det samme som dansk? (1862)
- Modersmaalet som skolefag (1864)
- Det norske maal-stræv (1867)
- Nogle spraak- og skolespörgsmaal (1869)
- Den landsgyldige norske uttale (1876)
- Unorsk og norsk eller fremmede ords avlösning, (1879–1881)
- Af maalstriden 1881 (1881)
- Norsk blandkorn (3 samlingar, 1882–1885)
- Latinskole uten latin (1884)
- Hvem skal vinne? (1886)
- Tyskhet i norsk og dansk (1888).
- Norsk maalvekst fra 1852 å regne (1894)