Norwegian is a Germanic language with around 5 million speakers in Norway, Canada, Ecuador, Sweden, the UAE and the USA. There was considerable debate about how to go about creating a national language and two languages emerged - Nynorsk (language of the country), based on colloquial Norwegian and regional dialects, particularly the dialects of western Norway, and Bokmål (national language), which was based on selected dialects and Old Norse, was purged of foreign borrowings and resembles written Danish.

For a while there was a movement to create a single Norwegian language to be called Samnorsk (Union Norwegian). Politicians liked the idea of unifying the Norwegian language, while everybody else thought it a bad idea. The Samnorsk project was officially abandoned on 1st January 2002.

Norwegian is one of the main languages for business in Europe. Norwegian is one of the languages often translated by Comms Multilingual. Norwegian translation projects have included work on advertisements, brochures, instructions for mobile phones, scripts, manuals, commercial documents and typesetting.