ABSTRACT
There are no countries without language diversity. We, as human communities, have organized ourselves into social and geo-political groups, and accommodated our language diversities within them, refl ecting our valuations of those languages and that diversity in what we very often call language policies (for our purposes these are ‘offi cial and authoritative decisions regarding language use, abilities, structure/form, or status’). The study of the co-variation between language variables and social, political, or economic variables in the context of language diversity has often been viewed as a way to understand those accommodations, often more descriptively and polemically than explanatorily at a micro level. At a macro level, the study of language policy and politics has been viewed as an explicit expression of our accommodations to societal language diversity and its concomitant valuations.
