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Norwegianisation

Norwegianisation is the alternative form of Norwegianization.

Meaning of Norwegianization

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.
    • The joik, and Sami culture generally, for a long time had been endangered under the fornorsking, or Norwegianization, policy.2024 May 16, Avedis Hadjian, “The Sami people bring on spring - with reindeer and sleighs”, in The Christian Science Monitor
  2. (countable) The changing of foreign words into a Norwegian form.
    • "Snøbrett" is a Norwegianization of "snowboard".

Forms of Norwegianisation

pluralNorwegianisations

Origin of Norwegianisation

From Norwegian + -isation.

Questions about Norwegianisation

What is Norwegianisation the alternative form of?
Norwegianisation is the alternative form of Norwegianization.

Words near Norwegianisation in the dictionary

  1. Norwegian rats
  2. Norwegian scabies
  3. Norwegian Sea
  4. Norwegian whist
  5. Norwegianess
  6. Norwegianisation
  7. Norwegianisations
  8. Norwegianise
  9. Norwegianised
  10. Norwegianises
  11. Norwegianising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Norwegianisation (page history and authors); Norwegianization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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