Norwegian

adjective

• relating to Norway or its people or language.

noun

• 1a native or inhabitant of Norway, or a person of Norwegian descent.

• 2 [mass noun] the language of Norway, a member of the Scandinavian language group.

Norwegian today exists in two forms, Bokmål, the more widely used, a modified form of Danish, and Nynorsk (‘new Norwegian’), a 19th-century literary form devised from the country dialects most closely descended from Old Norse, and considered to be a purer form of the language than Bokmål.