ABSTRACT
Conceptualizing transregionalism without its corresponding linguistic relations is like attempting to understand content without form, as if one could conceive of ethnic, social, and milieu-specific relations without their linguistic foundations and connections. The grammar appeared the same year that Christopher Columbus discovered America, as if it was intended to establish the language policy for the development of Latin America. The consort of power the implementation of a language often appears to result from a different type of policy action, so that it creates the impression that no language policy exists. As a large-scale attempt at transregional language policy, the Soviet reconfiguration of discourse is interesting because it shows how language policy can intervene in a linguistic group's perception of identity. Additionally, ongoing tensions between the titular nation and Russian-speaking minorities in the Baltic and Caucasus states and in Moldova are rooted in Soviet language policy.
