Theolinguistic Sovereignty
✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Theolinguistic Sovereignty Language Deities Word Sets and the Sovereignty of Meaning Joshua Plovanic A Strong Resilience September 16 2026 Every civilization speaks a language, but every language also speaks a civilization into being. ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Abstract This paper proposes Theolinguistic Sovereignty as a philosophical and theological model of language. Its central claim is that the totality of every distinct language may be understood as the equivalent of a Language-Deity : a distributed, transpersonal power that precedes individual speakers, organizes a civilization's field of meaning, preserves its memory, and governs the habitual forms through which its people perceive themselves and the world. A Language-Deity is not necessarily a conscious supernatural person. It is a living sovereignty embodied across speakers, texts, rituals, institutions, grammatical patterns, metaphors, and histories. No indi...