ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role of language planning in the development of Ghana and shows that the indigenous languages of Ghana have very important roles to play in sustainable development, which involve two important ingredients – education and development communication. It describes language planning as any activity that assigns functions to languages, or works on the structures of a language, or promotes the learning and use of a language. Multilingualism poses problems for language planning, that is, the management of many languages in order derive maximum benefit from them is a Herculean task. Adams Bodomo also proposes that one or two indigenous languages should be promoted as national/official languages, while the foreign official language is maintained transitionally and eventually replaced as an official language. Just as the language of education becomes a complex issue in education in multilingual communities, so does the language of communication in such communities.
