Finnish, Kven
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- Language: Finnish, Kven, Kvennish, suomi, kveenin kieli, kainun kieli
- Alternate names: Kven, North Finnish
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:fkv
- Language family: Uralic, Finnic
- Number of speakers: 5,000
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
The Kven language is spoken mostly by the Kven population in Northern Norway. From a linguistic point of view the Kven language is a mutually intelligible dialect of Finnish, but for political and historical reasons it received in 2005 status of a legal minority language in Norway, within the framework of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
The Verb
- 3 modes: indicative, conditional, imperative
- 4 tenses: present, preterite, perfect, pluperfect
- 2 numbers: singular, plural
- 3 persons.
Sample verb: saađa 'to get'
| INDICATIVE | CONDITIONAL | IMPERATIVE | ||
| Present | Past | |||
| Sg.1 | saan | sain | saisin | - |
| Sg.2 | saat | sait | saisit | saa |
| Sg.3 | saapi | sai | sais | saakhoon |
| Pl.1 | saama | saima | saisima | saama |
| Pl.2 | saatta | saitta | saisitta | saakkaa |
| Pl.3 | saađhään | saathiin | saatais | saakhoot |
| Passive | saađhään | saathiin | saatais | saatakhoot |
References
http://uit.no/getfile.php?PageId=7815&FileId=19(approve sites)