Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Kven people and Sami people

Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.

Difference between Kven people and Sami people

Kven people vs. Sami people

Kvens (Kven/Finnish: kveeni, Norwegian: kvener, Swedish: kväner, Northern Sami: kveanat) are a Finnic ethnic minority in Norway who are descended from Finnish peasants and fishermen who emigrated from the northern parts of Finland and Sweden to Northern Norway in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Sami people (also known as the Sámi or the Saami) are a Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses large parts of Norway and Sweden, northern parts of Finland, and the Murmansk Oblast of Russia.

Similarities between Kven people and Sami people

Kven people and Sami people have 27 things in common (in Unionpedia): Alta, Norway, Finland, Finnic languages, Finnic peoples, Finnish language, Finnmark, Finnmark Act, Finns, Karasjok, Kiruna, Laestadianism, Lakselv, Lutheranism, Northern Sami, Norway, Norwegian language, Norwegianization, Olaus Magnus, Porsanger, Sami languages, Sami people, Ságat, Skibotn, Sweden, Swedish language, Tana, Norway, Troms.

Alta, Norway

Alta (Áltá; Alattio or Alta) is the most populated municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

Alta, Norway and Kven people · Alta, Norway and Sami people · See more »

Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

Finland and Kven people · Finland and Sami people · See more »

Finnic languages

The Finnic languages (Fennic), or Baltic Finnic languages (Balto-Finnic, Balto-Fennic), are a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by Finnic peoples, mainly in Finland and Estonia, by about 7 million people.

Finnic languages and Kven people · Finnic languages and Sami people · See more »

Finnic peoples

The Finnic peoples or Baltic Finns consist of the peoples inhabiting the region around the Baltic Sea in Northeastern Europe who speak Finnic languages, including the Finns proper, Estonians (including Võros and Setos), Karelians (including Ludes and Olonets), Veps, Izhorians, Votes, and Livonians as well as their descendants worldwide.

Finnic peoples and Kven people · Finnic peoples and Sami people · See more »

Finnish language

Finnish (or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside Finland.

Finnish language and Kven people · Finnish language and Sami people · See more »

Finnmark

Finnmark (italic; Finnmark; Фи́ннмарк, Fínnmark) is a county ("fylke") in the extreme northeastern part of Norway.

Finnmark and Kven people · Finnmark and Sami people · See more »

Finnmark Act

The Finnmark Act (Finnmarksloven in Norwegian) of 2005 transferred about 96% (about 46,000 km2) of the area in the Finnmark county in Norway to the inhabitants of Finnmark.

Finnmark Act and Kven people · Finnmark Act and Sami people · See more »

Finns

Finns or Finnish people (suomalaiset) are a Finnic ethnic group native to Finland.

Finns and Kven people · Finns and Sami people · See more »

Karasjok

Karasjok or Kárášjohka (Northern Sami) or Kaarasjoki (Finnish) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

Karasjok and Kven people · Karasjok and Sami people · See more »

Kiruna

Kiruna (Northern Sami: Giron, Finnish: Kiiruna) is the northernmost town in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland.

Kiruna and Kven people · Kiruna and Sami people · See more »

Laestadianism

Laestadianism, also known as Laestadian Lutheranism and Apostolic Lutheranism, is a conservative Lutheran revival movement started in Lapland in the middle of the 19th century.

Kven people and Laestadianism · Laestadianism and Sami people · See more »

Lakselv

(Leavdnja; Lemmijoki) is the largest village and administrative centre of Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

Kven people and Lakselv · Lakselv and Sami people · See more »

Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestant Christianity which identifies with the theology of Martin Luther (1483–1546), a German friar, ecclesiastical reformer and theologian.

Kven people and Lutheranism · Lutheranism and Sami people · See more »

Northern Sami

Northern or North Sami (davvisámegiella; disapproved exonym Lappish or Lapp), sometimes also simply referred to as Sami, is the most widely spoken of all Sami languages.

Kven people and Northern Sami · Northern Sami and Sami people · See more »

Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

Kven people and Norway · Norway and Sami people · See more »

Norwegian language

Norwegian (norsk) is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is the official language.

Kven people and Norwegian language · Norwegian language and Sami people · See more »

Norwegianization

Norwegianization (Fornorsking av samer) was an official policy carried out by the Norwegian government directed at the Sami and later the Kven people of northern Norway to assimilate non-Norwegian-speaking native populations into an ethnically and culturally uniform Norwegian population.

Kven people and Norwegianization · Norwegianization and Sami people · See more »

Olaus Magnus

Olaus Magnus (October 1490 – 1 August 1557) was a Swedish writer and Catholic ecclesiastic.

Kven people and Olaus Magnus · Olaus Magnus and Sami people · See more »

Porsanger

Porsanger (Norwegian) or Porsáŋgu (Northern Sami) or Porsanki (Kven/Finnish) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

Kven people and Porsanger · Porsanger and Sami people · See more »

Sami languages

Sami languages is a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sami people in Northern Europe (in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and extreme northwestern Russia).

Kven people and Sami languages · Sami languages and Sami people · See more »

Sami people

The Sami people (also known as the Sámi or the Saami) are a Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses large parts of Norway and Sweden, northern parts of Finland, and the Murmansk Oblast of Russia.

Kven people and Sami people · Sami people and Sami people · See more »

Ságat

Ságat is a Sámi newspaper written in Norwegian that is published in the county of Finnmark in Norway.

Kven people and Ságat · Ságat and Sami people · See more »

Skibotn

Skibotn (Ivgubahta, Markkina or Yykeänperä) is a village in the municipality of Storfjord in Troms county, Norway.

Kven people and Skibotn · Sami people and Skibotn · See more »

Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

Kven people and Sweden · Sami people and Sweden · See more »

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken natively by 9.6 million people, predominantly in Sweden (as the sole official language), and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish.

Kven people and Swedish language · Sami people and Swedish language · See more »

Tana, Norway

or is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

Kven people and Tana, Norway · Sami people and Tana, Norway · See more »

Troms

Troms (italic; Tromssa) is a county in Northern Norway.

Kven people and Troms · Sami people and Troms · See more »

The list above answers the following questions

Kven people and Sami people Comparison

Kven people has 58 relations, while Sami people has 371. As they have in common 27, the Jaccard index is 6.29% = 27 / (58 + 371).

References

This article shows the relationship between Kven people and Sami people. To access each article from which the information was extracted, please visit:

Hey! We are on Facebook now! »