The results of his research were published in Det norske folkesprog grammatik (1848; "Grammar of the Norwegian Dialects") and Ordbog over det norske folkesprog (1850; "Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects"), texts that prepared the way for the wide cultivation of Nynorsk.
After studying Old Norwegian, Aasen undertook a survey of the contemporary Norwegian dialects.
He was thus unable to recognize the breadth of spirit in Wergeland's poetry beneath its apparent surface crudity and was outraged by Wergeland's inclusion of words from Norwegian dialects in an otherwise Danish text.
The r sound was assimilated to following dental sounds (l, n, s, t, d) to make a series of retroflex consonants (ḷ, ṇ, ṣ, ṭ, ḍ, pronounced with the tip of the tongue curled up toward the hard palate) in many Swedish and Norwegian dialects, including those of Oslo and Stockholm.
The diphthongs remained on the island of Gotland and in most North Swedish dialects, however, while they were lost in some East Norwegian dialects.
This year Magnus's courses will include Norwegian, Norwegian dialects and modern history.
In wisely choosing a linguistic middle ground against the largely imported Dano-Norwegian written language and the oral Norwegian dialects, Asbjørnsen and Moe came to set the standard for the Norwegian language known as Nynorsk ("new Norwegian") in contradistinction to the more formal Bokmål ("book Norwegian"), though they also influenced the latter to some degree.
Norwegian folk-ballad style owes its significance in equal measure to Landstad's devotion to his Telemark background and to the emergence of literary works in the New Norwegian dialect idiom.
The New Yorker, February 28 , 1948P. 52 Reporter at Large about a slalom race down Mount Cranmore, N.H. (Slalom comes from an old Norwegian dialect word meaning slow, or careful).
Hailing from Tromsø, Koht spoke a Northern Norwegian dialect in his early life.
