THE INFLUENCE OF COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL PROCESSES ON ENGLISH AND UZBEK TOPONYMY
Abstract
This article examines the influence of colonial and post-colonial processes on the development of English and Uzbek toponymy from a comparative linguistic and sociocultural perspective. The study explores how political domination, imperial administration, migration, ideological transformation, and national identity formation affected geographical naming systems in both linguistic traditions. In English-speaking regions, colonial expansion contributed to the spread of British place-naming conventions, the replacement of indigenous names, and the emergence of hybrid toponyms reflecting cultural interaction. In the Uzbek context, historical changes associated with the Russian Empire and later Soviet administration significantly transformed local toponymic structures through ideological renaming, administrative standardization, and linguistic adaptation.