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Turkmenize en · VERB

Etymology

From Turkmen + -ize.

Meanings

1. to make Turkmen.
   • 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, 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:
   • 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. 2011, Dilip Hiro, Inside Central Asia: A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz stan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran, Abrams, →ISBN:
   • 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. 1999, Adrienne Lynn Edgar, The Creation of Soviet Turkmenistan, 1924-1938:

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