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    Kvens (Kven: kvääni; Finnish: kveeni; Norwegian: kvener; Swedish: kväner; Northern Sami: kveanat) are a Balto-Finnic ethnic minority in Norway. Kvens...
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    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...
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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 (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...
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  • 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...
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    The Kven flag (Kven: kvääniflaku; Norwegian: Kvenflagget) is a flag that has been used by Kvens since 2009 in Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The flag was...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • The Norwegian Kven Organization (Kven: Ruijan kveeniliitto, Norwegian: Norske kveners forbund) was established in 1987, and has about 700 members. The...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Finnmark (category Articles containing Kven-language text)
    Finnmark (Norwegian: [ˈfɪ̀nːmɑrk] ; Northern Sami: Finnmárku [ˈfinːmaːrku]; Kven: Finmarkku; Finnish: Finnmark; Russian: Финнмарк) is a county in the northern...
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    significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages. Kven, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is spoken in...
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    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)....
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    KVEN (1450 AM, "SportsRadio 1450") was a radio station licensed to Ventura, California. Operating from 1948 to 2021, KVEN last carried sports radio programming...
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    distinct groups: Tornedalians, Kvens, and Lantalaiset. Tornedalians are generally thought to be descended from the ancient Kvens, first mentioned by Ohthere...
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  • 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...
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    in Finland, and a recognized minority language in Sweden. Meänkieli and Kven, sometimes considered as dialects of Finnish, are recognized minority languages...
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  • Finnish | Hungarian | Lezgian | Lithuanian | Livonian | Tlingit | Tsez | Kven Antessive case anterior before the house Dravidian languages Apudessive case...
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  • separate ethnic groups, rather than subgroups of Finns. These include the Kvens and Forest Finns in Norway, the Tornedalians in Sweden, and the Ingrian...
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    linguists, while other linguists consider them separate languages. Meänkieli and Kven are spoken in northern Sweden and Norway respectively and have the legal...
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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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  • 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...
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  • 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)...
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  • 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...
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    Troms og Finnmark (category Articles containing Kven-language text)
    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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    January 1, 1962, as KVEN-FM and simulcast the middle of the road music format of its AM counterpart KVEN. In 1965, Carroll R. Houser sold KVEN-AM-FM to a group...
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  • 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...
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  • Gorani, and Croats) 2.2%. (2002 census) Norway Norwegians 85–87% Sami 0.7% Kvens 0.2% Poles 2.10%. A variety of other ethnicities with background from 219...
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    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...
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