Lars Sigurdsson Vikør (born 30 April 1946) is a Norwegian linguist, translator and educator.

Biography

Lars Vikør is a graduate of the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

and the

University of Leiden Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, as a reward to the city of Le ...

. He is a professor of Scandinavian languages and linguistics and specialist in

Nynorsk Nynorsk () () is one of the two written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language ( no, Landsmål) parallel to the Dano-No ...

lexicography at the

. He is the main editor of the Norwegian Dictionary ('' Norsk Ordbok''). He has also engaged in the National Association for Language Collection (''Landslaget for språklig samling''). Vikør has written books and articles on sociolinguistics, language politics, and modern language history, notably ''The New Norse Language Movement''. He has devoted himself for

Samnorsk The Norwegian language conflict ( no, målstriden, da, sprogstriden) is an ongoing controversy in Norwegian culture and politics related to the written versions of Norwegian. From 1536/1537 until 1814, Danish was the standard written language o ...

—towards language equality between Norway's two competing written language forms,

and

Bokmål Bokmål () (, ; ) is an official written standard for the Norwegian language, alongside Nynorsk. Bokmål is the preferred written standard of Norwegian for 85% to 90% of the population in Norway. Unlike, for instance, the Italian language, there ...

, and has been a representative of the

Norwegian Language Council The Language Council of Norway ( no, Språkrådet, ) is the consultative body of the Norwegian state on language issues. It was established in 2005 and replaced the Norwegian Language Council (, ) which existed from 1974 to 2005. It is a subsidiar ...

Selected works

*''The New Norse language movement'' (1975) *''Sprakpolitikk pa fem kontinent: Eit oversyn og ei jamføring'' (1977) *''Perfecting spelling: Spelling discussions and reforms in Indonesia and Malaysia, 1900–1972'' (1988) *''The Nordic languages: Their status and interrelations'' (1993) *''Aust-Timor, ein nasjon under jernhælen'' (1994)

References

External links

Publications of Lars S. Vikør in Frida
1946 births Living people Linguists from Norway Academic staff of the University of Oslo Norwegian translators {{Norway-translator-stub