Lexeme determinations for Bokmål are based on majority usage in Urban East Norwegian. Phonemic and phonetic transcriptions correspond to present-day pronunciations in Western Oslo.
Description
Bokmål, one of two alternative official forms of (written) Norwegian (the other being Nynorsk).
Note on geographical location
Set on Oslo, since Bokmål was originally based on the ‘Dano-Norwegian’ spoken by the ‘urban elite’, especially in Oslo.