# Norwegianization

> English word · Noun

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

## Etymology
From Norwegian + -ization.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/norwegianization