The language policies must be developed to cater for the specific needs, contexts, characteristics and conditions of each linguistic community. In all of these cases, language policy should be geared to the preservation and active use of minority languages. Formal education also serves to promote awareness of cultural and linguistic diversity, peace and tolerance amongst both majority and minority group members. However, to make minority language education sustainable, language policies need to be implemented in other domains including mass-media, public administration, and the world of economics and commerce. An equilibrium must be reached through a process of consensus-building between individual language rights and the rights of language communities.
Language planning is a democratic process.
Official language policies should take into account the aspirations of the language communities by integrating them into policy decisions and by promoting permanent interaction between governments and language minority groups. Both majority and minority groups have the right of access to languages of wider communication. Plurilingualism and interculturalism is a richness that education systems, media and societies at large must foster.