Kven language

The Kven language is a Finnic language spoken in northern Norway by the Kven people.

Kven
kainun kieli
Native to	Norway
Native speakers	2,000 – 10,000 (2011)[1]
Language family	Uralic Finnic Northern Finnic Kven
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Regulated by	Kven language board
Language codes
ISO 639-2	fkv
ISO 639-3	fkv
ELP	Kven Finnish
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In 2005 the language was officially given minority status in Norway.^[2] This was for political and historical reasons. The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages has rules for the signs of a minority language. Linguistically, however, it is seen as a mutually intelligible dialect of the Finnish language. Because of this it is grouped together with the Peräpohjola dialects, such as Meänkieli, spoken in Torne Valley in Sweden.

1. ↑ Kven at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
2. ↑ "Kvensk". Store norse lexicon. Retrieved 21 September 2017.