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The Kven language is a Finnic language spoken in northern Norway by the Kven people. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. In 2005 the language was officially given ...
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Kaikki ihmiset synnythään vaphaina, ja heilä kaikila oon sama ihmisarvo ja samat ihmisoikkeuet. Het oon saanheet järjen ja omatunnon, ja het piethään elläät toinen toisen kans niin ko veljet keskenhään.
The Kven language is the language which the Kvens have spoken and still speak today and which has survived through Swedenization and Norwegianization as a minority language. In my opinion "meänkieli" of Torne Valley is also an old Kven language or in our old language, Kainu language.
Information about the Kven language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kven_language Læremidler i Kvensk http://kvensk.no Kainun institutti / Kvensk institutt http://www.kvenskinstitutt.no/kvener
Estonian, Finnish, Karelian, Kven, Livvi-Karelian, Livonian, Ludic, Meänkieli, Seto, Veps, Võro, Votic Languages written with the Latin alphabet Page last modified: 11.10.21 [top] Why not share this page: If you like this site and find it useful, you can support it by making a donation via PayPal or Patreon, or by contributing in other ways. Omnigl...
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The Kven language is a Finnic language. From a linguistic point of view, Kven is a mutually intelligible dialect of Finnish, but for political and historical reasons, it received in 2005 status of a legal minority language in Norway, within the framework of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Kven differs from Finnish since ...
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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 ...
The usual story [or traditional story], [1] is that kvens are descendants from Finnish [3] peasants and fishermen who moved from the northern parts of Finland and Sweden to Northern Norway in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1996, the government of Norway officially said that Kvens were a minority group. In 2005, Norway officially made Kven ...
language shift. 1. Introduction The Kven language of northern Norway has up to the early years of the 21st century been subject to prejudicial language and cultural policies due to its close ethnolinguistic relationship with Finnish, particularly in the context of Norway’s nationalist language emancipation development.1 Indeed, the Kven
