Language planning

Language planning refers to deliberate efforts on the part of governments, educators or intellectuals to modify the structure or social role of a language.

Subtypes
Since Kloss (1969), two subtypes are often distinguished:
 * corpus planning
 * status planning

Origin
The term has been around since the 1960s. It seems that it arose in connection with policy decisions in newly independent Asian and African countries.

other languages
German Sprachplanung