Azerbaijanization

noun

The act or process of Azerbaijanizing.

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Meanings

nounAzerbaijanization (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe act or process of Azerbaijanizing.

    After the demise of the Soviet Union, a certain Azerbaijanization of Azerbaijani education on all levels took place.

    2017, Zaur Gasimov, Historical Dictionary of Azerbaijan, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 85
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    To grant autonomy to the Talysh in the Azerbaijan SSR, because they, according to letters, "are subjected to forced Azerbaijanization, deprived of the possibility to study in their native language, and to develop their natural culture."

    1991, Current Politics of the Soviet Union

    Some Russian-language programmes resisted this Azerbaijanization, but in 2008 these programmes were also banned on official Azerbaijani television and radio frequencies.

    2011, Jacob M. Landau, Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Language Politics in Contemporary Central Asia: National and Ethnic Identity and the Soviet Legacy, I.B.Tauris, →ISBN, page 45

Origin

From Azerbaijanize + -ation.

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