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National Language

A national language is a language that serves as a symbol for the country, a language that serves to build identity for the people of the country.

Official language

A practicial language used in a country. Utilitarian rather than symbolic.

De facto and de jure

De facto means "in fact/actuality/reality)


It's how it is practically




De jure means (in law)


How it is legally regardless of the pragmatic situation.

Language planning

Language planning is when authorities, officials, or certain individuals attempts to willfully steer the language in a country in a particular direction.




Deliberate language change.

Planning for a national official language

4 steps of making a language a national one
1. Select a language or code
2. Formalize it, standardize it's structures and linguistic features.
3. Expand areas of usage. Make it useful in more domans.


4. Positive attitude change towards the language.




Selection and attitude is social work
Codification and expanding it's use is linguistic work.

Status/Prestige planning

Status planning is part of language planning and what it means is the process of securing a languages prestige, loyalties.

Elaboration

Extending a languages functions to new domains. Developing linguistic resources to handle new concepts and contexts.

Codification and Corpus Planning

Standardizing structural and linguistic feature.

Acquisition planning

When you try to increase a languages


NUMBER OF USERS, usually through te education system.