Samnorsk („common Norwegian“) designates one Constructed language and a linguistic policy in Norway, which were prevailing particularly into the 1950s into the 1960s.

A goal was the creation of of a common of a Norwegian language by a mixture of the two of different of the official languages (Bokmål and Nynorsk).

The Samnorsk language was rejected however by the population substantial, and opponents of the policy organized Parents action against Samnorsk. Into the 1950er years was very bitter those controversy over Samnorsk of one of the most important political topics and. Today the Samnorsk politics are officially given up. By linguistic reforms (1981, 2003) the official Bokmål liberalisiert and again Riksmål strongly approximates.

Devaluing „Samnorsk is used“ also this very day as name for „radical“ Bokmål, which contains again-Norwegian or dialectic language forms.

In the novel a fire on the depth the American SF - author Vernor Vinge Samnorsk becomes a common colloquial language in space colonies of a far future.