Norwegianization
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[edit]Norwegianization (countable and uncountable, plural Norwegianizations)
- (uncountable) The former Norwegian government policy of assimilating the Sami and Kven peoples into an ethnically and culturally uniform Norwegian population.
- 2024 May 16, Avedis Hadjian, “The Sami people bring on spring - with reindeer and sleighs”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
- The joik, and Sami culture generally, for a long time had been endangered under the fornorsking, or Norwegianization, policy.
- (countable) The changing of foreign words into a Norwegian form.
- "Snøbrett" is a Norwegianization of "snowboard".