Abstract

Language policy refers to the tacit habits and to the set of explicit rules and laws which, whether established by a government or by any other institution or human group, are concerned with the use of languages, dialects and registers in a community. This topic has been brought to light by modern sociolinguistics, a branch of linguistics that views language as an expression of individual identity and social ethnicity and deals with language variation and status as well as the communicative functions of languages.