The Sound of the Kven language (Numbers, Words & The Lord's Prayer)

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Kven (Kvääni, Kainu)
Native to: Norway
Native speakers: 2,000–8,000 (2005?)
Language family: Uralic

is a Finnic language or a group of Finnish dialects spoken in the northernmost parts of Norway by the Kven people. For political and historical reasons, it received the status of a minority language in 2005 within the framework of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Linguistically, however, it is seen as a mutually intelligible dialect of the Finnish language, and grouped together with the Peräpohjola dialects such as Meänkieli, spoken in Torne Valley in Sweden. While it is often considered as a dialect in Finland, it is officially recognized as a minority language in Norway. However, some Kven people consider it a separate language.

The Kven language has come to incorporate many Norwegian loanwords, such as tyskäläinen (from the Norwegian word tysk, meaning German) instead of standard Finnish saksalainen. The Kven language also uses some old Finnish words that are no longer used in Finland.

There are about 1,500 to 10,000 known native speakers of this language, most of whom are over the age of 60. Middle aged speakers tend to have a passing knowledge of the language. They use it occasionally, but not frequently enough to keep it off the endangered list. People under the age of 30 are barely seen to speak or know the language. However, children in the community of Børselv can learn Kven in their primary schools.

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[kalevireentie]

Basically, the Kven language is mostly standard Finnish with Norwegian influences and loanwords. It's spoken in the northernmost parts of Norway where Finnish was appreciated in the 18th century. I could understand 100% of these excerpts as a Finn (we take Swedish as 3rd language in school).

[まさ仲吉]

Nyt ei kukhaan ruijassa halluu oppiit kväänii ja se oon jo pois piđosta. Se oon kans synti ette usheemat suomesta tulleevat ihmiset piđethään sitä dialektinna. Minusta se oon mahđolinen revitaliseerata tätä kieltä jos oon enämen ihmissii, jokka oon interesseerannu kväänhiin ja sen oppimisheen.

[valt]

This is me speaking
I did a small mistake its mie praattaan kvääniksi I accidentaly aspirated it
also accidentaly pronounced sti as tsi "riikitsi" would be "riikkisti"

[Lawh]

Moro/morjesta/morjensta = morgen. Never realized this connection.

[julleri]

Basically Finnish with some extra H's and Norwegianized words😄

[SinilkMudilaSama]

The finnic uralic idioms group have a deep relation with central and east uralic idiom group, sino mongolic group and innuit eskimo idiom group.
Theses langs are very well connected.

[lutuzi]

awesome kven language sound so amazing I hope can you upload another language video please of besermyan dialect of udmurtian language spoken in Russia and also csangos dialect of Hungarian language spoken in Romania :)

[EccentricTuber]

Looked to be lots of Germanic loanwords.

[LittleBearMysticNun]

Since it's a Finnic language, might "riikkitsi" for "kingdom" be a loanword?
In Germanic languages "-riks/-rikr/-rik" usually denotes king, ruler, kingdom, wealth.

[SinilkMudilaSama]

Pretty Finnic uralic lang with norwegian neutral loan words

[shtareth]

Why video haven't Tolkien references:(

[rockaphett]

Could you try to do one of these on "Syriac/Assyrian Aramaic" :).

[orla]

As Estonian I understand it better than Finnish, like 80-90%

[heikisalm]

I can understand this better then finnish 😮

[Yemalidk]

Basically just a dialect of finnish but with some norwegian loanwords

[NNP]

This finnic language sounds similar to norwegian language.