This article is about the contemporary ethnic group in Norway. For ancient Kvens, see Kvenland.
Balto-Finnic ethnic minority in Norway
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Norway (Northern Norway, particularly Finnmark and Troms)
Languages
Kven, Finnish, Sami,[2] Norwegian
Religion
Lutheranism, including Laestadianism
Related ethnic groups
Finns, Tornedalians, possible Sami
Kvens (Kven: kvääni; Finnish: kveeni; Norwegian: kvener; Swedish: kväner; Northern Sami: kveanat) are a Balto-Finnic[3][4] ethnic minority in Norway. They are descended from Finnish peasants and fishermen who emigrated from the northern parts of Finland and Sweden to Northern Norway in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1996, Kvens were granted minority status in Norway, and in 2005 the Kven language was recognized as a minority language in Norway.
^[1] "Endelig et felles flagg for kvenene" (in Bokmål)
^"Finnish, Kven". Ethnologue.
^Hickey, Raymond (2010). The Handbook of Language Contact. John Wiley & Sons. p. 598. ISBN 9781405175807.
^Sulkala, Helena; Mantila, Harri (2010). Planning a New Standard Language: Finnic Minority Languages Meet the New Millennium, Issue 1. Finnish Literature Society. ISBN 9789522222275.
of Finnish dialects spoken in the northernmost parts of Norway by the Kvenpeople. For political and historical reasons, it received the status of a minority...
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The Kven flag (Kven: kvääniflaku; Norwegian: Kvenflagget) is a flag that since 2009 has been used by Kvens in Norway, Sweden and Finland. The flag was...
(especially non-white and non-Western immigrants), Black people, Sámi people, Kvenpeople, and Romani people. Jews and Muslims in Norway also experience antisemitism...
Spoken by the Kvenpeople, the Kven language is a Finnic language, closely related to Finnish, and spoken by between 5,000 to 8,000 people in northeastern...
father's family name is of Finnish origin. Leonhard is considered to have been Kven. When Seppala was two years old, his family moved within Troms county to...
century, also mention Kvens. Today, the term Kven is used in Norway in reference to the descendants of Finnish-speaking people who have inhabited or migrated...
in 2004. The flag is a horizontal tricolor of yellow, white and blue. Kvenpeople Tornio, Finland Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity (in Russian)...
worn by either members of the Norwegian people or members of the Sami people of Norway or members of the Kvenpeople of Norway. Bunad is a Norwegian umbrella...
Finnmark (Norwegian: [ˈfɪ̀nːmɑrk] ; Northern Sami: Finnmárku [ˈfinːmaːrku]; Kven: Finmarkku; Finnish: Finnmark; Russian: Финнмарк) is a county in the northern...
Skibotn (Northern Sami: Ivgubahta, Kven: Yykeänperä) is a village in Storfjord Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located on the southeastern...
of Sámi or Kven ancestry now identify as ethnic Norwegian. The national minorities of Norway are Kvens, Jews, Forest Finns, and Romani people. In 2017,...
some cases the Kvens, Ingrians, Tornedalians and speakers of Meänkieli are considered separate from the Finns. The bulk of the Finnic peoples (more than 98%)...
rights of the Kvenpeople, improving the media coverage of Kven issues, and for the Norwegian government to establish a State Secretary for Kven issues. In...
Sami people and for the whole of Norway.) 21 February – King Harald V's birthday 16 March – The Kven National Day. (An official flag day for the Kven people...
His father was Per Savio, a polar explorer who was one of the first two people to spend a night on the Antarctic continent, and his mother was Ellen Strimp...
Rustefjelbma. Historically, Bonakas has been inhabited by the Sami people and Kvenpeople, more recently newcomers from the more southern parts of Norway...
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previous decade, as 36,000 Finns left their home country for North America. Kvenpeople in Sweden. The picture was published in 1926. Finnish branch of the Salvation...
toponymical approach. Yet another theory postulates that the words finn and kven are cognates. Chud Fenni Fennoscandia Finnic mythologies Finno-Ugric languages...
Meänkieli speakers have gradually been considering themselves part of the Kvenpeople, which supposedly arrived to the area much earlier than the Swedish settlers...
ˈfɪ̀nːmɑrk]; Northern Sami: Romsa ja Finnmárku [ˈromːsa ja ˈfinːmaːrku]; Kven: Tromssa ja Finmarkku; Finnish: Tromssa ja Finnmark) was a county in northern...
Orosius, in the plural form Cwenas. Today, however, Kven refers to Finnish (Kven) speaking people who have migrated to northern Norway in relatively recent...
carried out by the Norwegian government directed at the Sámi and later the Kvenpeople of the Sapmi region in Northern Norway. Russification: The 19th-century...