 In 1885, Landsmål was adopted as an official written language alongside the Norwegian version of Danish.Knud Knudsen, a teacher, worked instead to adapt the orthography more closely to the spoken Dano-Norwegian "koiné" known as "cultivated daily speech" ("dannet dagligtale").He argued that the cultivated daily speech was the best basis for a distinct Norwegian written language, because the educated classes did not belong to any specific region, they were numerous, and possessed cultural influence.