A group speaking the same language is known as a nation

The test by which a nation is known to exist is that of language. A group speaking the same language is known as a nation, and a nation ought to constitute a state. It is not merely that a group of people speaking a certain language may claim the right to preserve its language; rather, such a group, which is a nation, will cease to be one if it is not constituted into a state. It is bound to give up its language, and combine with its conquerors, in order that there may be unity and internal peace and complete oblivion of relationships which no longer exist. Such a group, absorbed in a foreign state is doomed to death; it member become an appendix to the life which bestirred itself of its own accord before them or beside them; they are an echo of a voice already silent they are considered as a people, outside the original people, and to the latter they are strangers and foreigners.


Again, if a nation is a group of people speaking the same language, than if political frontiers separate the members of such a group, these frontiers are arbitrary, unnatural and unjust. Through a common language and through common national characteristics which unite a nation. The individuals and communities have the right to secede from one state and adhere to another state. The boundaries of states must be natural and correspond with the linguistic map of a territory.

Those who speak the same language are joined to each other by a multitude of invisible bond by nature herself, long before any human art begins; they understand each other and have the power to make themselves understood more and more clearly; they are belong together and are by nature one inseparable whole. From this internal boundary they are making of the external boundary. A nation becomes a homogenous linguistic mass which as a magnet for groups speaking the same language.

M.sarjov