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Landsmaal

Landsmaal is the alternative form of Landsmål.

Meaning of Landsmål

Proper noun

Landsmål

  1. A written standard for Norwegian created by Ivar Aasen in the mid-1800s; predecessor to Nynorsk.
    • Political parties had to tailor their programmes according to the taste of the electorate on the basis of the Riksmål/Landsmål controversy.2000, Gyula Décsy, The Linguistic Identity of Europe: The 62 Languages of Europe Classified in Functional Zones, Eurolingua, →ISBN, page 84

Questions about Landsmaal

What is Landsmaal the alternative form of?
Landsmaal is the alternative form of Landsmål.

Words near Landsmaal in the dictionary

  1. landslides
  2. landsliding
  3. landslidings
  4. landslip
  5. landslips
  6. Landsmaal
  7. landsman
  8. Landsmans
  9. landsmanschaft
  10. landsmanschaftn
  11. landsmanschafts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Landsmaal (page history and authors); Landsmål (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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