Language Policy and Issues of Linguistic Consciousness of the Titular Ethnos (the Case Study of Republic of Kalmykia)

This article considers the issues of forming a language policy on the example of the Kalmyk language. The author studied the issue of legislative regulation of language policy as a factor in the preservation of linguistic consciousness of the people, revealed objective and subjective factors of the current language situation, carried out the analysis of linguistic and sociological survey among the students of secondary schools of the republic.