Linguistic Assimilation: Exclusion of the Native Language from Official Use

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.

ID: T0113.002
Sub-technique of:  T0113
Tactic: Persistence
People: Ukrainians
Version: 1.0
Created: 21 April 2026
Last Modified: 21 April 2026

Procedure Examples

ID Name Description
C0045 Abolition of Magdeburg Rights (1831)

Transfer of the courts to the language of the metropole: "made it impossible to conduct judicial proceedings in the Ukrainian language"[1].

S0020 Controlled Opposition

An attempt by pro-Russian forces to legalize the marginalization of the state language in the regions: «The Kolesnichenko-Kivalov language law»[1].

C0053 Creation of a Single "Soviet People" (1958–1970)

Displacement of the national language from the academic sphere: «The order of the USSR Ministry of Education requiring all dissertations to be written and defended only in Russian»[1].

C0048 Decree of Alexander III: Ban on Ukrainian Names (1888)

Official ban by Alexander III: "On the prohibition of the use of the Ukrainian language in official institutions"[1].

S0008 Government

Transfer of the courts to the language of the metropole: "made it impossible to conduct judicial proceedings in the Ukrainian language"[1].

S0008 Government

Official ban by Alexander III: "On the prohibition of the use of the Ukrainian language in official institutions"[1].

S0008 Government

Displacement of the national language from the academic sphere: «The order of the USSR Ministry of Education requiring all dissertations to be written and defended only in Russian»[1].

G0009 Russian Empire

Transfer of the courts to the language of the metropole: "made it impossible to conduct judicial proceedings in the Ukrainian language"[1].

G0009 Russian Empire

Official ban by Alexander III: "On the prohibition of the use of the Ukrainian language in official institutions"[1].

G0011 Russian Federation

An attempt by pro-Russian forces to legalize the marginalization of the state language in the regions: «The Kolesnichenko-Kivalov language law»[1].

C0055 The Kivalov-Kolesnichenko Law (2012)

An attempt by pro-Russian forces to legalize the marginalization of the state language in the regions: «The Kolesnichenko-Kivalov language law»[1].

G0010 USSR

Displacement of the national language from the academic sphere: «The order of the USSR Ministry of Education requiring all dissertations to be written and defended only in Russian»[1].

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