挪威语（norsk）是日耳曼语族的一个分支，普遍通用于挪威，也是挪威的官方语言。挪威语与瑞典语和丹麦语十分相似，操这三种语言的人也可以互相沟通。由于丹麦语从十六世纪至十九世纪期间一直是挪威地区的标准书写语言，以致近代的挪威语发展一直都受着爱国主义、城乡隔阂以及挪威文学史的争议所影响。

根据挪威法律和政府政策，现行的挪威语有两套书写形式，分别是“书面挪威语”（巴克摩挪威语，挪威语：bokmål）和“新挪威语”（或称耐诺斯克挪威语，挪威语：nynorsk）。两种书写挪威语的形式分别温和地代表着保守和激进的书写表达方式。巴克摩挪威语和耐诺斯克挪威语还有他们非官方的版本，分别称为riksmål和høgnorsk。

Norwegian (norsk) is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is the official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants.

These Scandinavian languages together with Faroese and Icelandic, as well as some extinct languages, constitute the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages). Faroese and Icelandic are hardly mutually intelligible with Norwegian in their spoken form because continental Scandinavian has diverged from them.