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The Kven language ( kvääni or kväänin kieli; kainu or kainun kieli; [2] 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. For political and historical reasons, it received the status of a minority language in 2005 within the ...
Working Papers in European Language Diversity 15 Anna‐Kaisa Räisänen & Niina Kunnas The Kven language: An Overview of a Language in Context Mainz Helsinki Wien Tartu Mariehamn Oulu Maribor Working Papers in European Language Diversity is a peer‐reviewed online publication series of the research project ELDIA, serving as an outlet for preliminary research findings, individual case studies ...
- Anna-Kaisa Räisänen, Niina Kunnas
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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.
213–229, 238). The archaeologist Ingela Bergman has argued that the lack of Kven place names in the coastal area around the Gulf of Bothnia is replaced by Gaino or Kaino names in the inland area, denoting the same group of people. She argues that the Kven ethnonym designates a section of the population together with the Laps and
- Lars Elenius
- 2019
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
Documentation of Kven culture: bibliographies and databases The focus of this article will be the bibliographic work about the Kvens and the presentation of that work on the Internet and the World Wide Web. First I will give a definition of the term Kven and a brief outline of the Kven migration to northern Norway. Definition of the term Kven
creation of Kven, a language separate from Modern Finnish, and Section 2.6 looks at the replication of eera verbs in Finnish and Kven. 2.1 Language planning and a nation state Special interest in language planning arose during the time of nationalism in the nineteenth century. Gellner (1983) emphasizes the connections between nation-
