Meaning of Norwegianization | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The former Norwegian government policy of assimilating the Sami and Kven peoples into an ethnically and culturally uniform Norwegian population.
   uncountable
2. The changing of foreign words into a Norwegian form.
   countable

Examples

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

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

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