Norwegian, a state language of Norway, is a North-Germanic language in the Western Scandinavian group. There are two official norms of the language – «Bokmål» (Danish-Norwegian) and «Nynorsk» (New Norwegian). Bokmål originates from the written Danish used during the Union of Denmark and Norway (1380–1814). Nynorsk was devised as the written language by a linguist Ivar Aasen in the mid-19th century, building on rural dialects in the western and central parts of the country, with a view to advancing the Old Scandinavian traditions. Both Norwegian languages are used in the public service, schools, churches, live on radio and TV. Books, magazines and newspapers are also published in both languages.

Attempts at bringing Bokmål and Nynorsk together to merge them into Samnorsk, a Common Norwegian, took quite a long time, but as they brought no success, the policy was abandoned in 2002. Nowadays, Bokmål is spoken by a landslide majority of Norwegian population, around 90 per cent, only the tenth of Norwegians speak Nynorsk. The Saami language spoken by the indigenous population of Norway is equal to Norwegian in the northern provinces of Troms and Finnmark. Saami belongs to the Finnic group of the Uralic language family, with its speakers including nearly 30,000 residents of Norway. 

The language situation is complicated by multiple dialects existing as many regions of Norway were isolated for a long time. The pronunciation may be so tremendously different that speakers of one dialect may hardly understand speakers of the other. 
The Tallinn-based ATCG experts have a fluent command of all forms of Norwegian and are perfectly good at Saami. If you need interpretations or translations from/into Norwegian, welcome to the ATCG and your order will be handled as professionally and fast as possible.