Kazakhify

present singular third person Kazakhifies · participle present Kazakhifying · participle past Kazakhified · past Kazakhified

1. to make Kazakh.

   One scholar identifies personnel decisions in particular as the main tool used to Kazakhify the state:

   2011, Michele E. Commercio, Russian Minority Politics in Post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan: The Transformative Power of Informal Networks, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 165

   2 more examples

   Kazakhifying city names (by restoring their Kazakh names or creating new Kazakh names from scratch) helps to territorialize the nation and therefore legitimize its borders.

   2014, Mariya Y. Omelicheva, Nationalism and Identity Construction in Central Asia: Dimensions, Dynamics, and Directions, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 3

   Loyal to the president, elites in the Kazakhstani regime are unable to compete against each other on the so-called Kazakhified field, proposing alternatives to the official, wobbly nation-building policy.

   2016, Marlene Laruelle, Kazakhstan in the Making: Legitimacy, Symbols, and Social Changes, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 125