Language planning can suffer set-backs if language planners are insuf- 1 rt> ji.
ficiently trained or if inadequate field-work or sociolinguistic survey-work is 1, "'
carried out beforehand. Ohannessian (1978a), for example, complains that_.......... :
the members of the committees set up to standardize the seven officially t
taught languages in Zambia had, with few exceptions, no training in Bantu
linguistics, Zambian languages or language pedagogy. As there is often an
insufficient number of qualified indigenous linguists in a developing country
to establish a system of language planning, experts are frequently called in