Standard Norwegian was once too similar to Danish for some Norwegians; hence the creation of " new Norwegian" (nynorsk), cobbled together from dialects and avoiding Danish echoes, which today is co-official alongside the older Dano-Norwegian (bokmal).

对一些挪威人来说，标准挪威语曾与丹麦语过于相似；因此创造了新的挪威语(nynorsk)，从方言中拼凑而成，避免了与丹麦语过于相似，如今，它与较老的挪威达诺语(bokmal)共同成为官方语言。