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Norwegian is spoken today as a native language by almost 5 million Norwegians. There are two distinct standard Norwegian languages that are spoken and written appropriate to region. Eighty-five percent of the population speaks Bokmål, also called Norsk ("Norwegian"), which is oriented very heavily toward the Danish. Nynorsk on the other hand has some commonalities with the West Scandinavian languages of Faeroese and Icelandic. Both versions have certain elements that they share with the Swedish. Norwegians, Danes and Swedes understand each other relatively well, whereas the Norwegians have fewer problems with the Danish and the Swedish than speakers of these do amongst themselves.

Norway is not a member of the European Union, but closely connected to Europe economically nonetheless. It is considered as one of the richest countries in the world with a gross domestic product per inhabitant of over € 50,000. Whether Danish or Swedish as official languages of the EU are adequate for translation in the Norwegian market should be resolved in each individual case. In any case, both languages have official status in Norway by virtue of Nordic Alliance accords.