Get to know Kven better with 3 real example sentences, the meaning.
Kven meaning
A language spoken by a few thousand people in Northern Norway. It is a variant of Finnish with a structure and grammar similar to Finnish, but the vocabulary considerably influenced by Norwegian.
Using Kven
- The main meaning on this page is: A language spoken by a few thousand people in Northern Norway. It is a variant of Finnish with a structure and grammar similar to Finnish, but the vocabulary considerably influenced by Norwegian.
Context around Kven
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Kven
- In this selection, "kven" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ancestry and encouraging stand out and add context to how "kven" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the kven encouraging them and sami and kven. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "kven" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with kven
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Because of this " Norwegianization process", many families of Sami or Kven ancestry now identify as ethnic Norwegian. (17 words)
Earlier, a common pidgin language was spoken on the northern coast of Sápmi that combined elements of Russian, Norwegian, North Sami and Kven. (23 words)
From the 19th century up to the 1970s, the Norwegian government tried to assimilate both the Sami and the Kven, encouraging them to adopt the majority language, culture and religion. (30 words)
From the 19th century up to the 1970s, the Norwegian government tried to assimilate both the Sami and the Kven, encouraging them to adopt the majority language, culture and religion. (30 words)
Earlier, a common pidgin language was spoken on the northern coast of Sápmi that combined elements of Russian, Norwegian, North Sami and Kven. (23 words)
Because of this " Norwegianization process", many families of Sami or Kven ancestry now identify as ethnic Norwegian. (17 words)
Example sentences (3)
Because of this " Norwegianization process", many families of Sami or Kven ancestry now identify as ethnic Norwegian.
Earlier, a common pidgin language was spoken on the northern coast of Sápmi that combined elements of Russian, Norwegian, North Sami and Kven.
From the 19th century up to the 1970s, the Norwegian government tried to assimilate both the Sami and the Kven, encouraging them to adopt the majority language, culture and religion.