Turkmenize

English

Etymology

Turkmen +‎ -ize

Verb

Turkmenize (third-person singular simple present Turkmenizes, present participle Turkmenizing, simple past and past participle Turkmenized)

1. to make Turkmen.
   • 1999, Adrienne Lynn Edgar, The Creation of Soviet Turkmenistan, 1924-1938:

     Böriev believed that foreign words should be subordinated to the rules of the Turkmen language: When we borrow foreign words, it is essential to take the foreign root and Turkmenize these words.

   • 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 172:

     Turkmenize or leave the country. The Latinization of the alphabet has been achieved without any visible opposition and is now an established fact of life.

   • 2011, Dilip Hiro, Inside Central Asia: A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz stan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran, Abrams, →ISBN:

     With the introduction of the Ruhnama signalling a concerted drive to Turkmenize society at large, Niyazov drastically curtailed the use of Russian in education and official communication.