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  2. List of language regulators - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of bodies that consider themselves to be authorities on standard languages, often called language academies.Language academies are motivated by, or closely associated with, linguistic purism and prestige, and typically publish prescriptive dictionaries, [1] which purport to officiate and prescribe the meaning of words and pronunciations.

  3. Category:Language regulators - Wikipedia

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    Arabic language regulators (1 C, 9 P) I. Institute for Catalan Studies (1 C, 3 P) R. Royal Galician Academy (9 P) S. SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (2 P) T.

  4. Language council - Wikipedia

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    A language council, also known as a language regulator or a language academy, is an organisation that performs language planning or regulation. Some language councils are national and tied to a specific state, while councils without association to any country where the language is dominant also exist. [1] Some language academies may be ...

  5. Linguistic prescription - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic prescription [a] is the establishment of rules defining publicly preferred usage of language, [1] [2] including rules of spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, etc. Linguistic prescriptivism may aim to establish a standard language, teach what a particular society or sector of a society perceives as a correct or proper form, or advise on effective and stylistically apt ...

  6. ILR scale - Wikipedia

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    The exception is the DLIELC (Defense Language Institute English Language Center), which assigns a + designation for failure/inconsistency at the next higher level. Grades may be assigned separately for different skills such as reading, speaking, listening, writing, translation, audio translation, interpretation, and intercultural communication.

  7. Académie Française - Wikipedia

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    The body has the duty of acting as an official authority on the language; it is tasked with publishing an official dictionary of the language. The Académie comprises forty members, known as les immortels ("the immortals"). [2] New members are elected by the members of the Académie itself. Academicians normally hold office for life, but they ...

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  9. Language policy - Wikipedia

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    Language policy has been defined in a number of ways. According to Kaplan and Baldauf (1997), "A language policy is a body of ideas, laws, regulations, rules and practices intended to achieve the planned language change in the societies, group or system" (p. xi [3]).