The ability to communicate with others and share their thoughts and ideas is an important part of every person's social life. The ability to communicate is also a prerequisite for a functioning democracy and the rule of law, where everyone's rights and freedoms are protected (irrespective of ethnicity or disability, for example) and people have the opportunity to exercise their rights. Access to language is a prerequisite for participation in society. This project deals with the importance and position of language in Swedish society from a legal perspective. One starting point is that access to language is a question of democracy and the rule of law. The project has three overall objectives. The first purpose is to investigate the right to language education, the second is to investigate the authorities' responsibilities and obligations regarding language in their contacts with individuals, and the third purpose is to investigate whether the regulation is deficient in relation to international commitments regarding the protection of human rights. The point is to identify shortcomings in the regulation in various respects. For example, does the regulation as a whole mean that the position of different groups regarding access to languages differs in legal terms and how are any differences justified? There seems to be a hierarchy between the different languages. Does this hierarchy constitute discrimination? What are the consequences from a democracy and rule of law perspective?