Bosniakisation

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A form of Bosniakization — Making something more Bosniak, especially the formation of a Bosniak culture, customs, language or ethnicity or cultural assimilation into a Bosniak community.

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Meanings

nounBosniakisation (plural not attested)
  1. alternativeno pluralAlternative form of Bosniakization.

    p. 249: "The Bosniakisation of the Bosnian language destroyed its multicultural tradition."

    2020, Nikola Zečević, “Contemporary Language-Naming Practices in the Western Balkans”, in The Visegrad Four and the Western Balkans: Framing Regional Identities, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, pages 231-258

Origin

From Bosniak + -isation.

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APA

Bosniakisation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bosniakisation

MLA

“Bosniakisation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bosniakisation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Bosniakisation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bosniakisation.

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