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Preferred term

fkvKven Finnish  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Kven language is a Finnic language spoken in northern Norway by the Kven people. For political and historical reasons, it received the status of a minority language in 2005 within the framework of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Linguistically, however, it is seen as a mutually intelligible dialect of the Finnish language, and grouped together with the Peräpohjola dialects such as Meänkieli, spoken in Torne Valley in Sweden.

Entry terms

  • Finnish, Kven
  • Kven language

ISO 639-3 code

  • fkv

Notation

  • fkv

In other languages

  • Kvène

    French

  • Kvenische Sprache

    German

  • Portuguese

  • Idioma kven

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/fkv

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