Re: Fransk Dansk-Norse Dictionary
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul.w.bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 17, 2008, 4:50 |
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On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:44:22 -0500, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
wrote:
> Quoting Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...>:
>
>> A while back, I picked up a dictionary at a flea market. It is Fransk
>> Dansk-Norse. While I understand that it translates between French and
>> Danish-Norwegian, I'm not sure what Danish-Norwegian is. Could it be
>> another
>> name for Bokmal or Nynorsk?
>
> It would refer to Bokmål (also known in English as Dano-Norwegian).
Doesn't Dano-Norwegian refer to Riksmål?
AIUI, wasn't that the "classical" dialect of Danish used by the educated
urbanites in Norway pre-Bokmål, as opposed to the "vulgate" Norwegian
dialects that were koinized into Nynorsk?
Paul
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