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Ivar Aasen
1813Aug, 5

Ivar Aasen

Ivar Aasen, Norwegian poet and linguist (d. 1896)
Ivar Andreas Aasen (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈîːvɑr ˈòːsn̩]; 5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet. He is best known for having assembled from dialects one of the two official written versions of the Norwegian language, Nynorsk.

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