Eit samrøystes stortingsvedtak for 100 år sidan (1924) om talemålet i skolen er viktig for å forstå den utbreidde dialektbruken i Noreg
A unanimous parliamentary decision 100 years ago (1924) regarding the spoken language in schools is important for understanding the widespread use of dialects in Norway.

Summary/Abstract: This year (2024) marks the 100th anniversary of a remarkable, unanimous reso-lution passed on March 12th by the Norwegian Parliament for the protection of the first-language varieties spoken by the young school students: their accents and dialects, thevarieties they grew up with in their homes, and local communities. According to this resolu-tion, neither teachers nor the School Authorities had the legal right to question the right ofstudents to use their own language variety – and to have instruction given, as far as possible– in that same variety.This resolution is important for an understanding of how the widespread use of populardialects in Norway today came about: starting with a parliamentary decree of 1878 requir-ing the use of popular dialects in oral instruction in rural schools. In 1917 Parliament alsodecided to give this same protection to the use of urban working-class dialects in schools.Nationwide sociolinguistic legislation of this type has no known parallel elsewhere.The principle of not trying to eradicate, or even “correcting” the dialects of schoolchildren, either in the countryside or in towns and cities, provides to a considerable extentan explanation for why Norway today stands out as probably the most dialect-using countryin Europe.

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