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58 relations: Alta, Norway, Børselv, Birkarls, Carta marina, Dialect, Eastern Norway, Etymology of Kainuu, European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, Finland, Finnic languages, Finnic peoples, Finnish language, Finnmark, Finnmark Act, Finns, Forest Finns, Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, Iđut, Karasjok, Kiruna, Kiruna Municipality, Kven language, Kvenland, Laestadianism, Lakselv, Lofoten, Lutheranism, Lyngen, Meänkieli dialects, Meänmaa, Minority language, Mutual intelligibility, Nord-Varanger, Nordic countries, Nordreisa, Northern Norway, Northern Sami, Norway, Norwegian Kven Organization, Norwegian language, Norwegianization, Nursery rhyme, Olaus Magnus, Origin of the name Kven, Polmak, Pop music, Porsanger, Sami languages, Sami people, Ságat, ..., Skibotn, Sweden, Swedish language, Tana, Norway, Tornedalians, Troms, Tromsø, Vadsø. Expand index (8 more) »
Alta, Norway
Alta (Áltá; Alattio or Alta) is the most populated municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.
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Børselv
Børselv is a village in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.
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Birkarls
The Birkarls (birkarlar in Swedish, unhistorical pirkkamiehet or pirkkalaiset in Finnish; bircharlaboa, bergcharl etc. in historical sources) were a small, unofficially organized group that controlled taxation and commerce in central Lappmarken in Sweden from the 13th to the 17th century.
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Carta marina
Carta marina et descriptio septentrionalium terrarum (Latin for Marine map and description of the Northern lands; commonly abbreviated Carta marina) is the first map of the Nordic countries to give details and place names, created by Swedish ecclesiastic Olaus Magnus and initially published in 1539.
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Dialect
The term dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word,, "discourse", from,, "through" and,, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.
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Eastern Norway
Eastern Norway (Bokmål: Østlandet, Nynorsk: Austlandet) is the geographical region of the south-eastern part of Norway.
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Etymology of Kainuu
Origin of the name Kainuu has been a disputed subject among Finnish historians and linguistics.
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European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) is a European treaty (CETS 148) adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages in Europe.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Finnmark
Finnmark (italic; Finnmark; Фи́ннмарк, Fínnmark) is a county ("fylke") in the extreme northeastern part of Norway.
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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.
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Finns
Finns or Finnish people (suomalaiset) are a Finnic ethnic group native to Finland.
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Forest Finns
Forest Finns (Metsäsuomalaiset, Skogfinner, Skogsfinnar) were Finnish migrants from Savonia and Northern Tavastia in Finland who settled in forest areas of Sweden proper and Norway during the late 16th and early-to-mid-17th centuries, and traditionally pursued slash-and-burn agriculture, a method used for turning forests into farmlands.
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Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) is a multilateral treaty of the Council of Europe aimed at protecting the rights of minorities.
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Iđut
Iđut AS is a Norwegian publisher, based in Ikkaldas, Indre Billefjord in Porsanger.
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Karasjok
Karasjok or Kárášjohka (Northern Sami) or Kaarasjoki (Finnish) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.
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Kiruna
Kiruna (Northern Sami: Giron, Finnish: Kiiruna) is the northernmost town in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland.
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Kiruna Municipality
Kiruna Municipality (Swedish: Kiruna kommun, Kiirunan kunta, Girona gielda) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northernmost Sweden.
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Kven language
The Kven language (kvääni or kväänin kieli; kainu or kainun kieli) is a Finnish dialect spoken in northern Norway by the Kven people.
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Kvenland
Kvenland, known as Cwenland, Qwenland, Kænland or similar terms in medieval sources, is an ancient name for an area in Fennoscandia and Scandinavia.
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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.
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Lakselv
(Leavdnja; Lemmijoki) is the largest village and administrative centre of Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.
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Lofoten
Lofoten is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway.
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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.
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Lyngen
Lyngen (Ivggu suohkan; Yykeän komuuni) is a municipality in Troms county, Norway.
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Meänkieli dialects
Meänkieli (literally "our language") is a group of distinct Finnish dialects spoken in the northernmost part of Sweden along the valley of the Torne River.
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Meänmaa
Meänmaa, or sometimes Torne Valley or Torne River Valley (Finnish: Tornionlaakso, Swedish: Tornedalen Meänkieli: Meänmaa) lies at the border of Sweden and Finland.
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Minority language
A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory.
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Mutual intelligibility
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort.
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Nord-Varanger
Nord-Varanger is a former municipality in Finnmark county in Norway.
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Nordic countries
The Nordic countries or the Nordics are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic, where they are most commonly known as Norden (literally "the North").
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Nordreisa
Nordreisa (Ráissa suohkan, Raisin komuuni) is a municipality in Troms county, Norway.
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Northern Norway
Northern Norway (Nord-Norge, Nord-Noreg; Davvi-Norga) is a geographical region of Norway, consisting of the three northernmost counties Nordland, Troms and Finnmark, in total about 35% of the Norwegian mainland.
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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.
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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.
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Norwegian Kven Organization
The Norwegian Kven Organization (Kven: Ruijan Kveeniliitto, Norske Kveners Forbund) was established in 1987, and has about 700 members.
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Norwegian language
Norwegian (norsk) is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is the official language.
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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.
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Nursery rhyme
A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century.
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Olaus Magnus
Olaus Magnus (October 1490 – 1 August 1557) was a Swedish writer and Catholic ecclesiastic.
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Origin of the name Kven
The origin of the name "Kven" is unclear.
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Polmak
Polmak (and) is a village in Tana Municipality in Finnmark county in Norway.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.
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Porsanger
Porsanger (Norwegian) or Porsáŋgu (Northern Sami) or Porsanki (Kven/Finnish) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.
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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).
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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.
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Ságat
Ságat is a Sámi newspaper written in Norwegian that is published in the county of Finnmark in Norway.
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Skibotn
Skibotn (Ivgubahta, Markkina or Yykeänperä) is a village in the municipality of Storfjord in Troms county, Norway.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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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.
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Tana, Norway
or is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.
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Tornedalians
The Tornedalians are descendants of Finns who, at some point, settled to the areas of today's Northern Sweden near the Torne Valley district and west from there.
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Troms
Troms (italic; Tromssa) is a county in Northern Norway.
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Tromsø
Tromsø (Romsa; Tromssa; Tromssa) is a city and municipality in Troms county, Norway.
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Vadsø
Vadsø (Čáhcesuolu; Vesisaari) is a municipality in Finnmark County, Norway.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kven_people
