ABSTRACT
One famous example of language planning can be seen in the establishment of the Academie Francaise in the seventeenth century, on the invitation of the influential and powerful Cardinal Richelieu. Language planning strategies with the aim in mind support the 'coexistence of different language groups and their right to maintain and cultivate their languages on an equitable basis'. When internationalism becomes an aim for language planners, what usually results is the adoption, or maintenance, of a language of wider communication in an official capacity. Internationalism has been the goal of the language planning policies of quite a few creole-speaking territories, such as those of the Anglophone Caribbean. The language situation in Trinidad can therefore be summed up as follows: Trinidad English-lexifier Creole, the native language of the majority of the population, coexists with British standard English, the official language of the country.
