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'{{Short description|Demographic and cultural assimilation process}} [[File:Tajiks of Uzbekistan.PNG|thumb|[[Tajiks]] of [[Uzbekistan]]{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}]] {{refimprove|date=December 2023}} '''Uzbekisation''' or '''Uzbekization''' is the process of forcing or inducing an [[Uzbeks|Uzbek]] identity on people or cultural heritage through a variety of administrative means. The term refers to the specific forms of indigenization ([[Korenizatsiia|''korenizacija'']]) that took place in Uzbekistan during the process of [[National delimitation in the Soviet Union|national delimitation in Central Asia]] in the 1920s and early 1930s. Because of assimilation pressures that began in 1924 with the creation of [[Uzbek SSR]], ethnic Tajiks often chose to identify themselves as Uzbeks in population census forms and preferred to be registered as Uzbek in their passports to avoid leaving the republic for the less developed agricultural and mountainous Tajikistan.<ref>Rahim Masov, ''The History of the Clumsy Delimitation'', Irfon Publ. House, Dushanbe, 1991 {{in lang|ru}}. English translation: [https://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Masov/frame.html ''The History of a National Catastrophe''], transl. [[Iraj Bashiri]], 1996.</ref> While official Uzbek statistics place the total Tajik population in Uzbekistan at about 5%,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.umid.uz/Main/Uzbekistan/Population/population.html |title=Results of population censuses in Uzbekistan in 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989. |access-date=2008-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620072910/http://www.umid.uz/Main/Uzbekistan/Population/population.html |archive-date=2008-06-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/uzbekistan/ CIA World Factbook: Uzbekistan] (1996 est.)</ref> subjective expert estimates suggest that the Tajiks may account for as much as 25%-30% of the total population of the country.<ref name=Foltz>[[Richard Foltz]], "The Tajiks of Uzbekistan", ''Central Asian Survey'', 15(2), 213-216 (1996).</ref> After the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]], the term "Uzbekization" has been applied to the processes in [[Uzbekistan]] that reverse the results of [[Sovietization]] and [[Russification]]. Among these are restoring the importance of [[Uzbek language]], which replaced the Russian language in obligatory education, promotion of Uzbek tradition and culture.{{cn|date=April 2020}} == See also == * [[Turkification]] * [[Sinicization]] * [[Russification]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{Cultural assimilation|sp=ize}} [[Category:Cultural assimilation]] [[Category:Culture of Uzbekistan]] [[Category:Ethnic Tajik people]] {{cultural-assimilation-stub}}'