| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| T0113.001 | Legislative Ban on the Native Language |
| T0113.002 | Exclusion of the Native Language from Official Use |
As part of linguistic assimilation, aggressors may forcibly convert the operation of all state, judicial, and administrative institutions exclusively to the language of the metropole. Creating a language barrier between the bureaucratic apparatus and the Indigenous people artificially marginalizes the local population, restricts its access to public services, and forces it to switch to the colonizer's language for social and career survival.
The displacement of the native language from the official sphere of the cities: with the liquidation of the remnants of Magdeburg self-government, the last institutional support for the local legal tradition disappeared – Ukrainian-language court proceedings had been curtailed as early as the extension of the all-Russian judicial system in the 1780s[1].
An attempt to legalize the marginalization of the state language in the regions: the law "On the Principles of State Language Policy" (the Kivalov-Kolesnichenko law) allowed record-keeping to be transferred to "regional languages," effectively entrenching the dominance of Russian in the Russified regions[2].