Kazakhize

present singular third person Kazakhizes · participle present Kazakhizing · participle past Kazakhized · past Kazakhized

1. to make Kazakh.

   By moving the capital from Almaty, which is a thoroughly Russianized city, the government wants to Kazakhize the political center of the country.

   1999, James Alt, Margaret Levi, Elinor Ostrom, Competition and Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists about Economics and Political Science, Russell Sage Foundation, →ISBN, page 286

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   This paper seeks to argue that despite early impulses to Kazakhize the state, subsequently there has been realization that state-building can dialectically combine both the processes of nation-building within Kazakhstan and integration of non-Kazakhs in the new states by creating equal stakes for them.

   2001, Contemporary Central Asia

   A Mongol writer named Huandag followed with an article entitled, 'No One Possesses Dual Homelands' and criticized attempts to overtly Kazakhize place-names in Bayan Olgi.

   2016, Doris Wastl-Walter, The Routledge Research Companion to Border Studies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 388