Ethiopia is a multilingual country framed by ethnic federalism with a multipartyrndemocratic parliamentarian system of government. The grand objective of thisrnstudy is surveying, analyzing, categorizing and comparing the language policyrnproposals provided by the political parties of Ethiopia regarding language use inrnadministrative purposes as well as in education. Basically, this is a descriptivernqualitative research and the policies of the parties were outlined from their officialrnmanifestos and political programs. Hence, the method used is document analysisrnafter taking representative samples from the political parties that are currentlyrnfunctioning in the country. The language poliCies of the parties are categorizedrntaking the literature review on the issue of language policy in sociolinguistics as arnframework. Moreover, the motivation behind the language policies is assessed. It isrnonly a few of the political parties that were found to have a relatively clearlyrnexplicated language policy. There are also parties that do not have any languagernproposal at all. It is also found that there are explicitly stated demands for thernpromotion of one or more language to be used as the working language of thernfederal government based on its numerical muscle or instrumental value for sciencernand technology exchange. On the other hand, although mother tongue education isrnmostly favored among the political parties despite its restricted use only at thernprimary level education, there are parties that propose the adoption of one languagernto be used as medium of instruction all over the country. In addition, there arernproposals which forward the adoption of a selected federal working language(s) uprnto secondary level education as subj ect(s) of study in the entire schools in therncountry. Since Ethiopia is a multilingual state, with all the conflicts betweenrndifferent ethno-linguistic groups as history tells us, any developmental policy shouldrnalways consider language as an issue to be thought thoroughly in planning economicrndevelopment as well as regional tranquility. It is also suggested that the parties andrnthe stake holders of the language policy business should base their argumentsrnregarding language policy based on a well researched pros and cons evaluation.