Norwegianization

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The former Norwegian government policy of assimilating the Sami and Kven peoples into an ethnically and culturally uniform Norwegian population. uncountable

    "The joik, and Sami culture generally, for a long time had been endangered under the fornorsking, or Norwegianization, policy."

  2. 2
    The changing of foreign words into a Norwegian form. countable

    ""Snøbrett" is a Norwegianization of "snowboard"."

Example

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"The joik, and Sami culture generally, for a long time had been endangered under the fornorsking, or Norwegianization, policy."

Etymology

From Norwegian + -ization.

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