Torleiv Hannaas (; 14 July 1874 – 19 November 1929) was a Norwegian philologist. He was born in

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as a son of farmers Thomas Nilsson Hannaas (1843–1915) and Anne Tolleivsdotter Vetrhus (1845–1944). In July 1906 he married teacher Ingerd Yttreland (1879–1954). Their daughter Liv married banker Egil Hiis Hauge. Torleiv Hannaas died in November 1929 in

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. He became professor at

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in 1918. His most important publications was ''Norske bygder I'' (1921) and ''Norske bygder II'' (1926), about the dialects in

Setesdal Setesdal (; older name: Sætersdal) is a valley and a traditional district in Agder County in southern Norway. It consists of the municipalities of Bykle, Valle, Bygland, Iveland, and Evje og Hornnes. The Otra river flows through the valley of ...

and

Vest-Agder Vest-Agder (; "West Agder") was one of 18 counties (''fylker'') in Norway up until 1 January 2020, when it was merged with Aust-Agder to form Agder county. In 2016, there were 182,701 inhabitants, around 3.5% of the total population of Norway. I ...

. He founded the ''Norsk Aarbok'' in 1920, and is often credited for introducing the term

Høgnorsk Høgnorsk (, ; meaning ''High Norwegian''), is a term for varieties of the Norwegian language from Nynorsk that reject most of the official reforms that have been introduced since the creation of . Høgnorsk typically accepts the initial reforms t ...

in an article in 1922. He was the chairman of

Noregs Mållag Noregs Mållag (literally "Language Organisation of Norway") is the main organisation for Norwegian Nynorsk (New Norwegian), one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language. In the Norwegian language conflict, it advocates the u ...

from 1926 to his death.

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1874 births 1929 deaths People from Evje og Hornnes Norwegian philologists University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the University of Bergen Noregs Mållag leaders {{Norway-academic-bio-stub