Estonification

Estonification

English

Etymology

Estonia +‎ -ification

Noun

Estonification (uncountable)

1. the act or process of Estonifying.
   • 1978, Tönu Parming, Elmar Järvesoo, A Case study of a Soviet Republic: the Estonian SSR

     The recent Estonification of the party and government leadership seems to reflect a conscious policy

   • 1992, Clare Thomson, The singing revolution: a political journey through the Baltic States

     Today the popular fronts, in an effort to reassure the ethnic minorities living in the Baltics, insist that the rights of non-Balts were respected, and that, despite Estonification, Latvianization and Lithuanianization, will be respected again.

   • 1994, Stockholms universitet. Centrum för baltiska studier, Emancipation and interdependence: the Baltic States as new entities in the international economy, 1918-1940: symposium organized by the Centre for Baltic Studies, Stockholm University, 15-17 October 1992, Centre for Baltic Studies (→ISBN)

     In foreign diplomatic circles in Estonia the law was characterized as the Estonification of industry.