alternate_names: "North Fennic; North Finnish; Kven;",
lang_description: "Disputed whether a separate language or a dialect of Finnish.",
classification: "Uralic; Finnic",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: ""There have been some controversies and official debates about the Kven minority, its status
and their language in Norway since the 1980s. The main questions have concerned the
status of the Kven language as an independent language and the language used in schools
and higher education (Anttonen 1999)... When the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages came into force in Norway in 1998, the language of the Kvens was defined as Kven/Finnish, but in 2005 the denomination was changed to 'the Kven language'." (Räisänen & Kunnas 2012)",
private_comment: null,
source_id:89800,
speakers: [
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id:7728,
code_id:4147,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: "6,500",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "1998",
public_comment: "6,500 (1998 The Federation of Norwegian Kven People).",
private_comment: null,
source_id:1511,
preferred: 0,
},
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id:7729,
code_id:4147,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "6,500",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:1881,
preferred: 0,
},
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id:18664,
code_id:4147,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: null,
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
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older_adults: null,
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ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
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source_id:90420,
preferred: 0,
},
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id:30582,
code_id:4147,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "1,500-10,000 (estimated)",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "10,000-50,000 (estimated)",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: ""The majority of Kven speakers (mostly 60 years old and older) use the Kven language as their everyday language, and no signs of attrition are visible among them (Lane 2010.) Middle-aged Kvens, on the other hand, have often only a passive knowledge of the language, though some are able to use the language to a limited extent with, for example, Finnish tourists and use Kven as a code language. Young people (under 30 years old) rarely speak Kven, but nowadays children in Børselv can learn Kven in their primary school. "",
private_comment: null,
source_id:98651,
preferred:1,
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code_id:4147,
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cached_documentation_score:-1,
google_group_url: "",
simplified_level: "high",
coordinates: "69.38, 29.54",
updated_at: "2018-03-29 12:11:21",
speaker_attitude: "Increasingly positive",
government_support: "Protected by the European Charter for Minority And Regional Languages",
institutional_support: "School programs (under the name "Finnish"), several institutes, organizations, festivals",
_other_languages_used: "Norwegian, Sámi",
domains_of_use: "Used in some non-official domains along with other languages, and remains the primary language used in the home for many community members.",