linguist

n. a scholar who specializes in the study of linguistics or any of its branches. A linguist may focus on the characteristics of a specific language or group of languages or on certain features of human language in general. He or she will not necessarily have a command of multiple languages, the more precise term for such a person being a polyglot.

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corpus planning

see language planning.