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- The Kven language is a Finnic language. Kven differs from Finnish since the Kven population was in effect isolated from other Finnish-speaking people. The Kven language has come to incorporate many Norwegian loanwords, and Finnish words that are no longer used in Finland are still used.
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Kven (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.
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The Kven language is a Finnic language. Kven differs from Finnish since the Kven population was in effect isolated from other Finnish-speaking people. The Kven language has come to incorporate many Norwegian loanwords, and Finnish words that are no longer used in Finland are still used.
The Kven language is a Finnic language spoken in northern Norway by the Kven people.
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.
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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
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3 The Kven language. Kven is a Baltic Finnish language that is closely related to Meänkieli in Sweden and to Northern Finnish dialects. Norway recognised Kven as a language in its own right in April 2005, and the language is mainly spoken in Troms and Finnmark.
Feb 7, 2023 · Modern Kven is a standardized written language, a true language in its own right. Some still call it Finnish, because they like to point out the obvious kinship. Try your hand at Kven in the museum’s monitors, and maybe learn a little bit of the language.