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The Kven language is a Finnic language spoken in northern Norway by the Kven people. For political and historical reasons,
it received the status of a minority language in 2005 within the framework of the European Charter for Regional or Minority
Languages. Linguistically, however, it is seen as a mutually intelligible dialect of the Finnish language, and grouped together
with the Peräpohjola dialects such as Meänkieli, spoken in Torne Valley in Sweden. Contrary to popular belief, the dialects
spoken by the Kvens and Kainuu peoples are not closely related. The Kainuu dialect is one of the Savonian dialects that was
formed from the 16th century onwards, when immigrants from Savonia started to settle in the northern wastelands. The Kven
language has come to incorporate many Norwegian loanwords, such as tyskäläinen (from the Norwegian word tysk, meaning German)
instead of standard Finnish saksalainen. The Kven language also uses some old Finnish words that no longer are used in Finland. |
Names (more)[ca] Kven[cs] Kvenština [de] Kvenische Sprache [en] Finnish, Kven [et] Kveeni keel [eu] Kven hizkuntza [fi] Ruijan murteet [fr] Kvène [hr] Kvenski finski [lt] Kvenų kalba [mk] Квенски јазик [nl] Kveens [nn] Kvensk [no] Kvensk [pt] Kven [ru] Квенский язык [es] Idioma kven [sv] Kvänska |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : fkvLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/fkvhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:fkv More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: fkvFreebase ISO 639-3 : fkv GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |