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Norwegianization

Norwegianization

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Norwegianization (uncountable)

  1. The former Norwegian government policy of assimilating the Sami and Kven peoples into an ethnically and culturally uniform Norwegian population.
  2. The changing of foreign words into a Norwegian form.
    "Snøbrett" is a Norwegianization of "snowboard".

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