ABSTRACT
A handy litmus test of the presence of ethnolinguistic nationalism as the leading ideology of statehood legitimation and maintenance in a given polity is the medium of education at the university level. In line with its paramount principle of the normative isomorphism of language, nation, and state, ethnolinguistic nationalism entails the enforcement of exclusive monolingualism in the national language for all the nation-state’s institutions at each level of administration, including the educational system. In this configuration, the national language doubles as the polity’s official (state) language, and ideally should be unique and not shared with any other nation-state or nation.
