''Det Norske Akademis ordbok'' (literally 'Dictionary of the Norwegian Academy'), abbreviated NAOB, is one of the largest dictionaries of the

Norwegian language Norwegian ( no, norsk, links=no ) is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regio ...

and covers its most widely used written variety,

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 ...

Riksmål (, also , ) is a written Norwegian language form or spelling standard, meaning the ''National Language'', closely related and now almost identical to the dominant form of Bokmål, known as . Both Bokmål and Riksmål evolved from the Danish wri ...

, which is used by around 90% of Norwegians. It was published as a freely available online dictionary in 2018 by the

Norwegian Academy The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature ( no, Det Norske Akademi for Språk og Litteratur), commonly known as the Norwegian Academy, is a Norwegian learned body on matters pertaining to the modern Norwegian language in its Dano-Norwegian ...

and Kunnskapsforlaget with support from the Parliament of Norway. Knut Olav Åmås has described the dictionary as the Norwegian counterpart of ''

Svenska Akademiens ordbok A complete set of ''Svenska Akademiens ordbok'', as of late 2014. The majority of the volumes remain unbound in this set. ''Svenska Akademiens ordbok'' (), abbreviated SAOB, is a dictionary published by the Swedish Academy, with the official titl ...

'' and the ''

Oxford English Dictionary The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'') is the first and foundational historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP). It traces the historical development of the English language, providing a co ...

''. The dictionary is based on ''

Norsk Riksmålsordbok ''Norsk Riksmålsordbok'' () is a Norwegian dictionary for the unofficial written language form Riksmål. The work was initiated by ''Riksmaalsvernet'' around 1920. Its first edition was completed in 1957, and was printed in four volumes. Two ext ...

'', which was published in six volumes between 1937 and 1995, and the development of ''Det Norske Akademis ordbok'' on the basis of this work started in the late 1990s. In 2018 Minister of Culture Trine Skei Grande said the work is of key importance to the preservation of the Norwegian language in the long term.Grande: – Ny ordbok er et nøkkelverk for det norske språk
''

Aftenbladet ''Aftenbladet'' ("The Evening Paper") was a daily newspaper in Oslo, Norway. History and profile ''Aftenbladet'' was established in 1855 as a continuation of the satirical magazine '' Krydseren'', and had the same editor-in-chief, Ditmar Meidel ...

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