Kvens (Kven: kvääni; Finnish: kveeni; Norwegian: kvener; Swedish: kväner; Northern Sami: kveanat) are a Balto-Finnic ethnic group indigenous to the northern...
19 KB (2,132 words) - 08:11, 3 November 2024
KVEN (1520 AM, "La Voz 1520 AM & 96.3 FM") is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Port Hueneme, California and serves the Ventura County area...
15 KB (1,502 words) - 18:54, 5 January 2025
Kven (kvääni or kväänin kieli; kainu or kainun kieli; Finnish: kveeni or kveenin kieli; Norwegian: kvensk) is a Finnic language or a group of Finnish dialects...
18 KB (1,484 words) - 12:19, 29 October 2024
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...
661 bytes (118 words) - 17:44, 1 January 2023
Kvenland (redirect from Kvens (historical))
Northern Norway, without mentioning Kvens. Ohthere's mention of the "large [freshwater] meres" and of the Kvens' boats are of great interest. The meres...
45 KB (5,858 words) - 20:55, 16 September 2024
The Kven flag (Kven: kvääniflaku) has been officially used as a symbol to represent the Kven people of Norway, Sweden, and Finland since 2009. It was designed...
7 KB (731 words) - 19:00, 23 December 2024
Languages of Norway (section Kven)
Norway, and Sami is protected by the constitution. Spoken by the Kven people, the Kven language is a Finnic language, closely related to Finnish, and spoken...
14 KB (1,447 words) - 19:40, 10 December 2024
The origin of the name Kven is unclear. The name appears for the first time in a 9th-century Old English version, written by King Alfred of Wessex, of...
4 KB (506 words) - 10:17, 2 May 2024
Finnmark (category Articles containing Kven-language text)
Finnmark (Norwegian: [ˈfɪ̀nːmɑrk] ; Northern Sami: Finnmárku [ˈfinːˌmaːrːhkuː]; Kven: Finmarkku; Finnish: Finnmark; Russian: Финнмарк) is a county in northern...
40 KB (4,173 words) - 17:07, 8 January 2025
KVEN (1450 AM, "SportsRadio 1450") was a radio station licensed to Ventura, California. Operating from 1948 to 2021, KVEN last carried sports radio programming...
10 KB (860 words) - 20:04, 5 January 2025
Norway (category Articles containing Kven-language text)
process", many families of Sámi or Kven ancestry now identify as ethnic Norwegian. The national minorities of Norway are Kvens, Jews, Forest Finns, and Romani...
226 KB (20,843 words) - 15:37, 8 January 2025
significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages. Kven, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is spoken in...
96 KB (9,319 words) - 19:42, 31 December 2024
List of municipalities of Norway (category Articles containing Kven-language text)
Kvääni–ruija–kvääni-nettisanakirja [Nettidigisanat Kven-Norwegian-Kven Online Dictionary] (in Kven). Thorsnæs, Geir; Berg, Ole T., eds. (2022-06-15)....
109 KB (845 words) - 18:12, 3 January 2025
The Kven Sea (Cwen sea) is mentioned as the northern border for the ancient Germania in The Old English Orosius, the history of the world published in...
3 KB (422 words) - 11:30, 15 March 2024
The Norwegian Kven Organization (Kven: Ruijan kveeniliitto, Norwegian: Norske kveners forbund) was established in 1987, and has about 1200 members. The...
1 KB (162 words) - 08:10, 29 October 2024
Tornedalians generally divide themselves into three distinct groups: Tornedalians, Kvens, and Lantalaiset. Meänkieli, or Tornedalian, is the language or dialect...
26 KB (2,735 words) - 07:07, 4 December 2024
linguists, while other linguists consider them separate languages. Meänkieli and Kven are spoken in northern Sweden and Norway respectively and have the legal...
31 KB (3,053 words) - 01:11, 21 December 2024
in Finland, and a recognized minority language in Sweden. Meänkieli and Kven, sometimes considered as dialects of Finnish, are recognized minority languages...
86 KB (8,680 words) - 00:51, 8 January 2025
countries, including Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish and Faroese, Icelandic, Kven, Northern Sami and Southern Sami. The hymn is traditionally sung during Christmas...
4 KB (321 words) - 22:43, 21 December 2024
KNCR KOAD-LP KPRO KQPT-LP KQQH KRLY-LP KSBX KSFH KSKD KSUR KSYC KTHO KUMI KVEN KVLP-LP KVQ KVVC KWTM KYJ - Los Angeles KYY - San Francisco KZKC KZM KZPE...
109 KB (147 words) - 15:34, 5 January 2025
Slavic (e.g. Serbo-Croatian), Vietnamese, Moro, the Sámi languages and the Kven language. D with stroke may also refer to: Eth (Ð, ð), used in Icelandic...
710 bytes (120 words) - 16:08, 12 January 2024
In fact he featured their lead singer, Joakim Brodén, on his 2017 album Kven. He started his interest in music around age nine, and he can sing fluently...
7 KB (657 words) - 20:54, 29 December 2024
King of Kvenland (redirect from Kven kings)
1271, the Icelandic Annals uses the term Kven, stating the following: "Then Karelians (Kereliar) and Kvens (Kvænir) pillaged widely in Hålogaland (Hálogaland)...
13 KB (1,610 words) - 21:09, 2 June 2024
Finnish | Hungarian | Lezgian | Lithuanian | Livonian | Tlingit | Tsez | Kven Antessive case anterior before the house Dravidian languages Apudessive case...
34 KB (336 words) - 21:01, 20 November 2024
Ruijan Kaiku (category Kven culture)
Ruijan Kaiku (Kven: "Echo of Norway"; Finnish: "Echo of Finnmark") is a bilingual newspaper (Kven/Finnish and Norwegian) that is published in Tromsø,...
2 KB (120 words) - 17:11, 8 November 2024
February – King Harald V's birthday 16 March – The Kven National Day. (An official flag day for the Kven people.) Easter Sunday 1 May – Labour Day 8 May...
38 KB (3,652 words) - 22:52, 25 December 2024
non-Western origin, including but not limited to Black people, Sámi people, Kven people, Romani people, Muslim people, and Asians. Jews in Norway occasionally...
5 KB (503 words) - 23:41, 12 October 2024
109 Silesian German 11,000 110 Nenets 4,000 111 Megleno-Romanian 3,000 112 Kven 2,000-8,000 113 Moksha 2,000 Elfdalian 2,000 115 Vepsian 1,640 116 Istro-Romanian...
21 KB (2,043 words) - 12:02, 19 December 2024
Norwegianization of the Sámi (category Kven culture)
out by the Norwegian government directed at the Sámi people and later the Kven people of northern Norway, in which the goal was to assimilate non-Norwegian-speaking...
29 KB (3,164 words) - 15:43, 11 December 2024
Norwegian people or members of the Sami people of Norway or members of the Kven people of Norway. Bunad is a Norwegian umbrella term encompassing a range...
6 KB (522 words) - 21:45, 12 August 2024