New Norse is both a written and spoken language. Aasen composed poems and plays in the composite dialect to show how it should be used; one of these dramas, The Heir (1855), was frequently acted, and may be considered as the pioneer of all the abundant dialect-literature of the last half-century of the 1800s, from Vinje to Garborg.
Ivar Andreas Aasen (; 5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet.
His father, a peasant with a small farm, Ivar Jonsson, died in 1826.
In 1833 he entered the household of Hans Conrad Thoresen, the husband of the eminent writer Magdalene Thoresen, in Herøy (then Herø), and there he picked up the elements of Latin.
In 1864, he published his definitive grammar of Nynorsk and in 1873 he published the definitive dictionary. Quite early in his career, in 1842, he had begun to receive a grant to enable him to give his entire attention to his philological investigations; and the Storting (Norwegian parliament), conscious of the national importance of his work, treated him in this respect with more and more generosity as he advanced in years.
Ivar single-handedly created a new language for Norway to become the “literary” language. ==Career== About 1846 he had freed himself from all the burden of manual labour, and could occupy his thoughts with the dialect of his native district, Sunnmøre; his first publication was a small collection of folk songs in the Sunnmøre dialect (1843).
His Grammar of the Norwegian Dialects (Det Norske Folkesprogs Grammatik, 1848) was the result of much labour, and of journeys taken to every part of the country.
Aasen's famous Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects (Ordbog over det Norske Folkesprog) appeared in its original form in 1850, and from this publication dates all the wide cultivation of the popular language in Norwegian, since Aasen really did no less than construct, out of the different materials at his disposal, a popular language or definite folke-maal (people's language) for Norway.
By 1853, he had created the norm for utilizing his new language, which he called Landsmaal, meaning country language.
In 1856, he published Norske Ordsprog, a treatise on Norwegian proverbs.
In 1864, he published his definitive grammar of Nynorsk and in 1873 he published the definitive dictionary. Quite early in his career, in 1842, he had begun to receive a grant to enable him to give his entire attention to his philological investigations; and the Storting (Norwegian parliament), conscious of the national importance of his work, treated him in this respect with more and more generosity as he advanced in years.
In 1864, he published his definitive grammar of Nynorsk and in 1873 he published the definitive dictionary. Quite early in his career, in 1842, he had begun to receive a grant to enable him to give his entire attention to his philological investigations; and the Storting (Norwegian parliament), conscious of the national importance of his work, treated him in this respect with more and more generosity as he advanced in years.
He continued his investigations to the last, but it may be said that, after the 1873 edition of his Dictionary (with a new title: Norsk Ordbog), he added but little to his stores.
Ivar Andreas Aasen (; 5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet.
He died in Christiania on 23 September 1896, and was buried with public honours. ==The Ivar Aasen Centre== Ivar Aasen-tunet, an institution devoted to the Nynorsk language, opened in June 2000.
He died in Christiania on 23 September 1896, and was buried with public honours. ==The Ivar Aasen Centre== Ivar Aasen-tunet, an institution devoted to the Nynorsk language, opened in June 2000.
Their web page includes most of Aasens' texts, numerous other examples of Nynorsk literature (in Nettbiblioteket, the Internet Library), and some articles, including some in English, about language history in Norway. ==2013 Language year== Språkåret 2013 (The Language Year 2013) celebrated Ivar Aasen's 200 year anniversary, as well as the 100 year anniversary of Det Norske Teateret.
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