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Kven
kveeni / kvääni (Kven)
kvener / kvenar (Norwegian)
kveanat (Northern Sami)
Official flag (since 2017)[1]
Total population
10,000–15,000
0.2% of the Norwegian population
Regions with significant populations
Kven people 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. ^ [1] "Endelig et felles flagg for kvenene" (in Bokmål)
  2. ^ "Finnish, Kven". Ethnologue.
  3. ^ Hickey, Raymond (2010). The Handbook of Language Contact. John Wiley & Sons. p. 598. ISBN 9781405175807.
  4. ^ Sulkala, Helena; Mantila, Harri (2010). Planning a New Standard Language: Finnic Minority Languages Meet the New Millennium, Issue 1. Finnish Literature Society. ISBN 9789522222275.

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Kven people

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Kvens (Kven: kvääni; Finnish: kveeni; Norwegian: kvener; Swedish: kväner; Northern Sami: kveanat) are a Balto-Finnic ethnic minority in Norway. They are...

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Kven language

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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...

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Kven

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Look up kven in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kven may refer to: Kven people, a Finnic ethnic group of Norway Kven language, the Finnic language spoken...

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Kven flag

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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...

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Racism in Norway

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(especially non-white and non-Western immigrants), Black people, Sámi people, Kven people, and Romani people. Jews and Muslims in Norway also experience antisemitism...

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Languages of Norway

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Spoken by the Kven people, the Kven language is a Finnic language, closely related to Finnish, and spoken by between 5,000 to 8,000 people in northeastern...

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Leonhard Seppala

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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...

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Kvenland

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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...

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Tornedalians

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in 2004. The flag is a horizontal tricolor of yellow, white and blue. Kven people Tornio, Finland Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity (in Russian)...

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List of national costumes of Norway

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worn by either members of the Norwegian people or members of the Sami people of Norway or members of the Kven people of Norway. Bunad is a Norwegian umbrella...

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Finnmark

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Finnmark (Norwegian: [ˈfɪ̀nːmɑrk] ; Northern Sami: Finnmárku [ˈfinːmaːrku]; Kven: Finmarkku; Finnish: Finnmark; Russian: Финнмарк) is a county in the northern...

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Skibotn

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Skibotn (Northern Sami: Ivgubahta, Kven: Yykeänperä) is a village in Storfjord Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located on the southeastern...

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Norway

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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,...

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Baltic Finnic peoples

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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%)...

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Norwegian Kven Organization

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rights of the Kven people, improving the media coverage of Kven issues, and for the Norwegian government to establish a State Secretary for Kven issues. In...

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Flag of Norway

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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...

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John Savio

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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...

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Bonakas

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Rustefjelbma. Historically, Bonakas has been inhabited by the Sami people and Kven people, more recently newcomers from the more southern parts of Norway...

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Flags of Europe

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portal Heraldry portal Flag of Europe Armorial of Europe Flag of the Romani people Lists of flags of European countries List of Albanian flags List of Andorran...

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Finnish diaspora

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previous decade, as 36,000 Finns left their home country for North America. Kven people in Sweden. The picture was published in 1926. Finnish branch of the Salvation...

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Finnic peoples

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toponymical approach. Yet another theory postulates that the words finn and kven are cognates. Chud Fenni Fennoscandia Finnic mythologies Finno-Ugric languages...

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Norrbotten

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Meänkieli speakers have gradually been considering themselves part of the Kven people, which supposedly arrived to the area much earlier than the Swedish settlers...

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Troms og Finnmark

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ˈfɪ̀nːmɑrk]; Northern Sami: Romsa ja Finnmárku [ˈromːsa ja ˈfinːmaːrku]; Kven: Tromssa ja Finmarkku; Finnish: Tromssa ja Finnmark) was a county in northern...

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Etymology of Kven

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Orosius, in the plural form Cwenas. Today, however, Kven refers to Finnish (Kven) speaking people who have migrated to northern Norway in relatively recent...

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Linguistic discrimination

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carried out by the Norwegian government directed at the Sámi and later the Kven people of the Sapmi region in Northern Norway. Russification: The 19th-century...

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