Kazakhize

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Kazakh +‎ -ize

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Kazakhize (third-person singular simple present Kazakhizes, present participle Kazakhizing, simple past and past participle Kazakhized)

  1. to make Kazakh.
    • 1999, James Alt, Margaret Levi, Elinor Ostrom, Competition and Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists about Economics and Political Science, Russell Sage Foundation, →ISBN, page 286:
      By moving the capital from Almaty, which is a thoroughly Russianized city, the government wants to Kazakhize the political center of the country.
    • 2001, Contemporary Central Asia:
      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.
    • 2016, Doris Wastl-Walter, The Routledge Research Companion to Border Studies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 388:
      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.

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