Official language/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Sociolinguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in social contexts - how people use language, how it varies, how it contributes to users' sense of identity, etc. ^[e]
• Language planning [r]: In sociolinguistics, the name for any political attempt to change the status of a language in some way or develop new ways of using it, e.g. a government devising laws to promote a language, or scholars producing an official dictionary; the former is status planning (changing the political recognition of a language), the latter corpus planning (changing the way a language is used). ^[e]

Other related topics

• National language [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Minority language [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Multilingualism [r]: The state of knowing two or more languages, either in individuals or whole speech communities. ^[e]