Ivar Aasen
Norwegian linguist and poet, dubbed the father of Nynorsk (1813 - 1896) · Norway · Academics · Died at 83
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Something wrong?He built a national language from scratch. Aasen walked Norway's valleys collecting dialects, then assembled them into Nynorsk - now one of the country's two official written forms.
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Ivar Andreas Aasen was born on 5 August 1813, a Norwegian philologist and lexicographer who would spend his life in the service of language. He travelled the country gathering dialects, then constructed Nynorsk - a written standard drawn from the variants he'd documented. The work made him a playwright and poet in the tongue he'd shaped. He died on 23 September 1896, having given Norway a second official language.
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