Ivar Aasen-sambandet
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Ivar Aasen-sambandet (The Ivar Aasen Union) is an umbrella organization of associations and individuals promoting the use of the Høgnorsk variant of the Norwegian language.
[edit] History
The union was founded in 1965 as a response to the samnorsk (a language policy aiming to merge the two languages Norwegian and Dano-Norwegian) policies prevailing in Noregs Mållag (Norwegian Language Union).
In 2002, the samnorsk policy was officially abandoned by Norway, as well as the majority of Noregs Mållag had during the 1990's. This decade also saw the revitalization of the høgnorsk movement, which took place inside of Noregs Mållag as well. The split between the two movements was now only organizational, and the høgnorsk movement no longer saw the other part as an enemy, but maintained that they had "a certain task" in the common work for the Norwegian language.
