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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.
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.
The Kven language uses the Latin alphabet, just like the English language, with 3 to 5 additional letters (đ, š, å, ä, ö) depending on the dialect. Pay attention to how each letter is pronounced; letters in red are vowels.
Language. 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.
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.
Kven language is a Finnic language that is closely related to Meänkieli and Finnish, and therefore these three languages are mutually intelligible for most of their speakers. Kven language was recognized as an independent language in Norway in April 2005.
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
