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    Kvens (Kven: kvääni; Finnish: kveeni; Norwegian: kvener; Swedish: kväner; Northern Sami: kveanat) are a Balto-Finnic ethnic minority in Norway. They are...
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    The Kven language (kvääni or kväänin kieli; kainu or kainun kieli; Finnish: kveeni or kveenin kieli; Norwegian: kvensk) is a Finnic language or a group...
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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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    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 Kven flag (Kven: kvääniflaku; Norwegian: Kvenflagget) is a flag that since 2009 has been used by Kvens in Norway, Sweden and Finland. The flag was...
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    mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages. The Kven language, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is...
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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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    List of municipalities of Norway (category Articles containing Kven-language text)
    which ultimately derives from Latin communia, communis ("common"). The Kven equivalent is kommuuni. In Northern Sámi, there are two words for a municipality:...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    (Finnish), Swedish (Meänkieli—spoken by the Tornedalians) and Norwegian (Kven) sides of the borders. There also used to be minorities speaking Finnish...
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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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    Norwegianization of the Sámi (category Kven culture)
    carried out by the Norwegian government directed at the Sámi and later the Kven people of northern Norway, in which the goal was to assimilate non-Norwegian-speaking...
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    Keiino (category Articles containing Kven-language text)
    interview with TV 2. In an interview with the Kven-minority-centered media Ruijan Kaiku, Fred Buljo discussed his Kven/Finnish ancestry, and that they had worked...
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    Type of site Weather forecasts Available in Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Kven, Northern Sami, English Owner Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and the...
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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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  • 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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  • KMSJ-LP KNCR KOAD-LP KPRO KQPT-LP KQQH KRLY-LP KSBX KSFH KSKD KSUR KTHO KUMI KVEN KVLP-LP KVQ KVVC KWTM KYJ - Los Angeles KYY - San Francisco KZKC KZM KZPE...
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    speakers constitute a language minority in Sweden and Norway. Meänkieli and Kven are Finnish dialects spoken in Swedish Lapland and Norwegian Lapland. The...
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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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    film in 2004. The flag is a horizontal tricolor of yellow, white and blue. Kven people Tornio, Finland Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity (in Russian)...
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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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  • Finnish | Hungarian | Lezgian | Lithuanian | Livonian | Tlingit | Tsez | Kven Antessive case anterior before the house Dravidian languages Apudessive case...
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    However, some "periphery" languages such as Gascon, Welsh, English, Elfdalian, Kven, Northern Sámi, Inari Sámi, Skolt Sámi, Ume Sámi, Mari, Greek, Albanian,...
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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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