'''Bokmål''' (secara harfiah "bahasa buku") atau ''Bahasa Dano-Norway''<ref>{{cite book |title=Dictionary.com Unabridged |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Dano-Norwegian |edition=v 1.1 |publisher=Random House, Inc}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=WordNet® |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Dano-Norwegian |edition=3.0 |publisher=Princeton University}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Dano-Norwegian |edition = Fourth Edition |year=2004 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company}}</ref> merupakan bahasa tulisan yang lebih biasa digunakan daripada kedua-dua bahasa tulisan piawai untuk [[Bahasa Norway]], yang lain ialah [[Nynorsk]]. Bokmål digunakan oleh kira-kira 85% daripada penutur Bahasa Norway (tidak mengambil kira [[loghat Norway|loghat]]) dan merupakan bahasa tulisan yang paling biasa diajar kepada pelajar-pelajar asing di Norway.
==Tulisan dan percakapan==
The first Bokmål [[orthography]] was officially adopted in 1907 under the name ''Riksmål'' after being under development since 1897.<ref name="Lundeby">{{cite web|url=http://www.språkrådet.no/templates/Page.aspx?id=7521|title=Lundeby, Einar: ''Stortinget og språksaken''|accessdate=2007-06-12}}</ref> It was an adaptation of written [[Danish language|Danish]], which was commonly used since the past union with [[Denmark]], to the Dano-Norwegian [[koiné language|koiné]] spoken by the Norwegian urban elite, especially in the capital. When the large conservative newspaper [[Aftenposten]] adopted the 1907 orthography in 1923, Danish writing was practically out of use in Norway. The name ''Bokmål'' was officially adopted in 1929 after a proposition to call the written language ''Dano-Norwegian'' lost by a single vote in the [[Storting|Lagting]] (a chamber in the Norwegian parliament).<ref name="Lundeby"/>
The term Bokmål officially refers only to the ''written'' language of that name, and possibly to its use in the media, by actors etc. There are, however, spoken varieties of Norwegian that are close or largely identical to written Bokmål. In ''The Phonology of Norwegian'', Gjert Kristoffersen writes that
<blockquote>"Bokmål [...] is in its most common variety looked upon as reflecting formal middle-class urban speech, especially that found in the eastern part of Southern Norway, with the capital Oslo as the obvious centre. One can therefore say that Bokmål has a spoken realization that one might call an unofficial standard spoken Norwegian. It is in fact often referred to as Standard Østnorsk ('Standard East Norwegian')."<ref name="Kristoffersen">{{cite book|last=Kristoffersen|first=Gjert|title=The Phonology of Norwegian|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2000|url= http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198237655|id=ISBN 9780198237655}}</ref></blockquote>
