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Cet article concerne la langue kvène. Pour le peuple kvène, voir Kvènes . Le kvène (en norvégien : kvensk språk, en finnois kveenin kieli ou kainun kieli) est un dialecte finnois 2 parlé principalement par la population kvène dans le nord de la Norvège .
The Kven language (kvääni or kväänin kieli; kainu or kainun kieli; Finnish: kveeni or kveenin kieli; Norwegian: kvensk) is a Finnic language or a group of Finnish dialects spoken in the northernmost parts of Norway by the Kven people.
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Beginning. References. Kven language. The Kven language is a Finnic language spoken in northern Norway by the Kven people. In 2005 the language was officially given minority status in Norway. [2] . This was for political and historical reasons. The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages has rules for the signs of a minority language.
Kven language has recently acquired recognition by the Norwegian state through its inclusion under Norway’s ratificationof the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. This article investigates and applies the con-cept of language emancipation, both in its nationalist and in its contemporary
From the 18th century the Kvens started to comprise a significant part of the population in Northern Norway. In 1845 13.3% of the population in Finnmark, and 3.2% in Troms, considered themselves as Kvens. In 1854 the numbers increased to respectively, 19.9% and 7.0%. The peak was in 1875, with respectively 24.2% and 7.7%.
Kvens (Kven: kvääni , Finnish: kveeni , Norwegian: kvenar, kvener , Swedish: kväner , Northern Sami: kveanat) are a Balto-Finnic ethnic minority in Norway. They descended from Finnish peasants and fishermen who emigrated from the northern parts of Finland and Sweden to Northern Norway in the 18 th and 19 th centuries. There is a theory among ...
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.
