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As an adjective Norwegian refers to something originating from Norway. As a noun it may have several meanings: An adjective is a part of speech which modifies a noun, usually making its meaning more specific. ... A noun, or noun substantive, is a part of speech (a word or phrase) that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality. ...

  • The Norwegian language, a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway.
  • One or both of the two official written forms of the Norwegian language:
  • The Norwegian people, who are also refered to as: Nordmenn; Northmen; and Norsemen.
  • The Norwegian Air Shuttle, a low-cost airline.
  • A rugged type of insulated food container designed for mass catering out of doors, as used by the British Army, and known as "Norwegian Containers", popularly abbreviated to "Norwegian".
  • A pullover type of thermal shirt with a distinctive roll neck, used by the British Army, and known as a "Norwegian Shirt", popularly abbreviated as a "Norwegian". Norwegians themselves refer to a similar shirt as an Icelander. The Icelander is a knitted norwegian cotton sweater, usually in black and white.

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Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2498 words)
The Norwegians settled on Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and parts of the British Islands and attempted to settle at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada (perhaps the Vinland of The Saga of Eric the Red).
Norway is bounded for its entire length by seas of the North Atlantic Ocean: the North Sea to the southwest and its large inlet the Skagerrak to the south, the Norwegian Sea to the west, and the Barents Sea to the northeast.
Nevertheless, all of the Norwegian dialects are interintelligible.
Norwegian language, alphabet and pronunciation (381 words)
Norwegian is a Germanic language with around 5 million speakers in Norway, Canada, Ecuador, Sweden, the UAE and the USA.
Early Norwegian literature, mainly poetry and historical prose, was written in West Norse and flourished between the 9th and the 14th centuries.
Norwegian continued to be spoken but Danish was used for officials purposes, as a literary language and in higher education.
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