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The best estimates on the number of speakers of both the Sami languages and of Kven in Norway can be given by Torkel Rasmussen. As for Kven:
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<div><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Kuinka moni osaa suomea ja kveeniä Pohjois-Norjassa? / s. 41-47 /</span><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </span><a href="http://www.ub.uit.no/baser/kvensk/advancedsearch.php?Date=2005&submit=search" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(127, 40, 95); ">2005</a><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </span><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">/</span><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left; ">
<span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Arina : nordisk tidsskrift for kvensk forskning = pohjoismainen kveenitutkimuksen aikakausjulkaisu / Nr 1 /</span><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </span><br>
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<div>I have a copy of the article (but on the university). The empirical material for this article is material achieved as a byproduct from an investigation regarding knowledge of North Saami in Norway, and some of the follow-up questions given to Saami speakers
were not given to the Kven speakers. But this investigation is, as far as I know, the best there is since the last Norwegian census asking for language knowledge. I will not quote any numbers without the article at hand, but as you can see, an investigation
thus exists.</div>
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<div>Some of the census data from the first half of the 20th century are also treated in my article</div>
<div>Trond Trosterud: Language Assimilation During the Modernisation Process: Experiences from Norway and North-West Russia. 93-122. Acta Borealia (2008): Volume 25(2) (ref: <a href="http://site.uit.no/acta/category/trosterud-trond/">http://site.uit.no/acta/category/trosterud-trond/</a>)</div>
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