Kven people
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Kvens (; ; ; ; ) are a Balto-Finnic ethnic group in Northern Norway. In 1996, Kvens were granted minority status in Norway, and in 2005 the Kven language was recognized as a minority language in Norway.
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Vinony's link graph records 183 inbound references to Kven people, and connects out to norwegianization of the Saami people, Sámi people and Sámi.
It is catalogued under topics including Baltic Finns, Ethnic groups in Norway and Ethnic groups in Sápmi.
Vinony links it to 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Kvens
- Ethnic group.flag
- Flag of the Kven people.svg
- Ethnic group.flag_caption
- Official flag (since 2017)
- Ethnic group.pop
- 10,000–15,000 0.2% of the Norwegian population
- Ethnic group.popplace
- (Northern Norway, particularly Finnmark and Troms)
- Ethnic group.rels
- Lutheranism, including Laestadianism
- Ethnic group.langs
- Kven, Sami, Norwegian
- Ethnic group.related c
- Finns, Peräpohjalaiset, Tornedalians, Sámi
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Country
- Norway
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- topic's main category
- Category:Kven people
- Commons category
- Kvens
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
26 sectionsContents
- Name
- Demographics
- History
- Early mentions
- 16th–19th centuries
- Norwegianization
- Cultural revitalization
- Language
- Ethnic controversies
- Modern recognition
- Culture and media
- Ruijan Kaiku
- Baaski festival
- Kven costume
- Kadonu Loru
- Organisations and institutions
- The Norwegian Kven organization
- The Kven Finn Association
- The Kven institute
- Kven Language Board
- Halti kvenkultursenter
- Ruija Kven museum
- Notable people of Kven descent
- See also
- References
- External links
Kvens (; ; ; ; ) are a Balto-Finnic ethnic group in Northern Norway. In 1996, Kvens were granted minority status in Norway, and in 2005 the Kven language was recognized as a minority language in Norway.
The term Kven is sometimes used more broadly to include the Tornedalians, a closely related Balto-Finnic minority group in northern Sweden.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kven people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.