Cultural Assimilation: Replacement of the Native Language's Alphabet

As part of cultural assimilation, aggressors may forcibly change the graphic basis (alphabet) of the local population's language. Converting the script of the Indigenous people to the metropole's alphabet artificially cuts new generations off from the body of previously published national literature, historical documents, and cultural heritage, while simultaneously facilitating linguistic unification and creating the false impression of illiteracy and the absence of a written tradition before the arrival of the colonizers.