Tag: Kven
Merethe Eidstø has to translate books into Kven due to a large lack of Kven children’s literature – news Kveeni
– I don’t know if it is completely within, but I have “pirate translated” a number of Norwegian books into Swedish for my own use, says Merethe Eidstø. She is…
Oslo can become Uslu – young Kvens want an official Kven name for Oslo – news Kveeni
“We have been given an official Swedish name for Norway, Norja, and we also need an official Swedish name for the capital Oslo.” This is what the Kven youth organization…
Norske Kveners Forbund calls for more public schemes to support Kven art – news Troms and Finnmark
Like a whole generation of young Sami, many Kvens are also trying to find their way back to what was taken away during the Norwegianization policy. M. Seppola Simonsen learned…
– Finnish as a minority language in Norway will mean death for the Kven language – news Kveeni
A few weeks ago, Tobias Eriksen (18), together with two other young people, asked the royal household, several ministers and Princess Ingrid Alexandra to equate Finnish and Kven languages in…