Linguistic Assimilation

Aggressors may deliberately displace and marginalize the native language of the Indigenous people, replacing it with the language of the metropole. The systematic narrowing of the local language's sphere of use in public, cultural, and everyday life allows the colonizer to sever the bond between generations, deprive the colonized society of the most important marker of national identity, and accelerate the process of its cultural absorption.

ID: T0113
Sub-techniques:  T0113.001, T0113.002
Tactic: Persistence
People: Ukrainians
Version: 1.0
Created: 21 April 2026
Last Modified: 21 April 2026

Procedure Examples

ID Name Description
C0079 Cultural Terror and the "Executed Renaissance" (1933–1938)

The forced orthography reform of 1933, aimed at artificially bringing Ukrainian grammar and terminology closer to the Russian language[1].

S0008 Government

The forced orthography reform of 1933, aimed at artificially bringing Ukrainian grammar and terminology closer to the Russian language[1].

G0010 USSR

The forced orthography reform of 1933, aimed at artificially bringing Ukrainian grammar and terminology closer to the Russian language[1].

References

  1. Лариса Якубова, большая команда. (2013). Відносини держави, суспільства і особи під час створення радянського ладу в Україні (1917 – 1938 рр.).