Norwegianization

English Alternative forms en Norwegianisation Etymology From en Norwegian ization. Noun ~ en uncountable The former Norwegian government policy of assimilating the Sami and Kven peoples into an ethnically and culturally uniform Norwegian population. en May 16 2024 Avedis Hadjian https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2024/0516/sami-easter-spring-celebration The Sami people bring on spring - with reindeer and sleighs The Christian Science Monitor The joik, and Sami culture generally, for a long time had been endangered under the fornorsking, or Norwegianization, policy. https://web.archive.org/web/20250217080829/https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2024/0516/sami-easter-spring-celebration 17 February 2025 en countable The changing of foreign words into a Norwegian form. en "Snøbrett" is a Norwegianization of "snowboard". Related terms en Norwegianize