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.
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.