Norwegianization

English

Alternative forms

• Norwegianisation

Etymology

Norwegian +‎ -ization

Noun

Norwegianization (countable and uncountable, plural Norwegianizations)

1. (uncountable) The former Norwegian government policy of assimilating the Sami and Kven peoples into an ethnically and culturally uniform Norwegian population.
   • 2024 May 16, Avedis Hadjian, “The Sami people bring on spring - with reindeer and sleighs”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

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

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

   "Snøbrett" is a Norwegianization of "snowboard".

Related terms

• Norwegianize