Download or read book Language Planning as a Sociolinguistic Experiment written by Ernst Hakon Jahr and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2014 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Norwegian nation following centuries of Danish rule. This book analyses how Norwegians defined, fought over, and developed their own independent Scandinavian language, differentiating it from Danish and Swedish, through language planning.