From ‘clarity and consistency’ to ‘domain loss’: The Norwegian case

Johan Myking
University of Bergen
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The aim and scope of this article is to describe the terminology planning of Norway within the framework of general language planning. Norwegian is a Scandinavian language with two written standards, Bokmål and Nynorsk. Norwegian is also a lesser-used language with 5,5 million users. Of the two standards, Nynorsk is the least used.

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