Foreldreaksjonen mot samnorsk

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The Foreldreaksjonen mot samnorsk (Parents' Action against Samnorsk) in Norway was organized by Riksmålsforbundet in 1951 to combat the Norwegian state's linguistic Samnorsk policy.

The aim of the Samnorsk policy was to create a common Norwegian language (Samnorsk: "common Norwegian") through a mixture of the two official languages ​​( Bokmål and Nynorsk ). This was seen by large parts of society as a "radicalization" of Bokmål and rejected.

The Foreldreaksjonen mot samnorsk gave the newspaper Frisprog ("Free Language", published from 1953 to 1985) with u. a. Margrethe Aamot Øverland and Sofie Helene Wigert as editors.

This action played a major role in the social discussion in Norway in the 1950s and around 500,000 signatures (out of a total population of around three million) were collected against Samnorsk. School books in Bokmål with Samnorsk forms were organized by parents and corrected in traditional Riksmål .

The action was largely responsible for the failure of the Samnorsk policy.

Literature (norw.)

  • Jan E. Hanssen (Ed.): Frisprog - mer enn ord . Riksmålsforbundet, Oslo 2003, ISBN 82-7050-055-0 .
  • Hva vil Foreldreaksjonen mot samnorsk? , published by Foreldreaksjonen mot samnorsk, Oslo, 1952