English

Alternative forms

• de-ethnicisation

Noun

de-ethnicization ‎(uncountable)

1. The act or process of ceasing to be ethnic; de-ethnization.
   • 1996, Ethnicity, Politics, and Society in Northeast Africa (ISBN 0761802835), page 10:

     The abandonment of a mother tongue leads to language death, and eventually to de-ethnicization, assimilation and gradual extinction of an ethnic entity […]