Norwegianization
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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, Avedis Hadjian, The Sami people bring on spring – with reindeer and sleighs, in: The Christian Science Monitor, 2024-05-16
- The joik, and Sami culture generally, for a long time had been endangered under the fornorsking, or Norwegianization, policy.
- 2024, Avedis Hadjian, The Sami people bring on spring – with reindeer and sleighs, in: The Christian Science Monitor, 2024-05-16
- (countable) The changing of foreign words into a Norwegian form.
- "Snøbrett" is a Norwegianization of "snowboard".