Language planning

Language planning is a process in which conscious on the development of a language influence is taken. The goal is to expand the language for ( new ) applications.

• Corpus planning refers to the structure, spelling, pronunciation and vocabulary of the language. This also includes the definition of a font for unwritten languages ​​may belong.
• Status planning is to promote the role of language in a society provide for the use as a language of instruction. Ultimately, this is not linguistic, but a sociological and political science task.

Examples of successful language planning are many languages ​​of the developing world such as Swahili and Indonesian. A special case of language planning are constructed languages ​​such as Esperanto, which now has even native speakers.