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Kainun institutti. Kainun institutti – Kvensk institutt (before 2005 known as Norsk senter for kvensk språk og kultur) is a center for Kven culture and language. It is located in Børselv in Porsangi (Porsanger) municipality in Norway. It was opened in January 2007. The chair at the institute is Hilde Skanke. In total six people are employed ...
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The Kven language - Kainu by its Kven language name - is a Northern Norwegian Finno-Ugric - or more precicely, Finnic - language, spoken mostly by the area's Finnic Kven population ( Finnic is a subgroup of Finno-Ugric, a.k.a. Fenno-Ugric ).
Kven (kvääni) Kven is a member of the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family, and is closely related to Finnish, particularly the Peräpohjola dialects. It is spoken in northern Norway by 5,000-8,000 people. In 2005 it received the status of a minority language under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
Ruijan Kaiku main offices are located in Søndre Tollbodgate 17 in Tromsø. Ruijan Kaiku (Kven: "Echo of Norway"; Finnish: "Echo of Finnmark") is a bilingual newspaper (Kven/Finnish and Norwegian) that is published in Tromsø, Norway. History and profile. Ruijan Kaiku was established in 1995. At the start two issues were published each month ...
Zonas onde kven é falada. A língua Kven é uma fino-báltica (das línguas urálicas) falada por cerca de 6 500 pessoas no norte da Noruega com alguns poucos falantes no norte da Suécia e da Finlândia. É falada pelo povo kven e por razões políticas e históricas recebeu o status de língua oficial de minorias, em 2005, dentro dos princípios da Carta Europeia das Línguas Regionais ou ...
