Norwegianization
Noun
Meaning
The former Norwegian government policy of assimilating the Sami and Kven peoples into an ethnically and culturally uniform Norwegian population.
The changing of foreign words into a Norwegian form.
"Snøbrett" is a Norwegianization of "snowboard".
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Examples
Because of this " Norwegianization process", many families of Sami or Kven ancestry now identify as ethnic Norwegian.