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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.
Icelandic Language Institute; Imperial Academy (Ethiopia) Institute for Bulgarian Language; Institute for the Languages of Finland; Institute of Croatian Language; Institute of the Czech Language; Institute of the Estonian Language; International Volapük Academy; Interuniversity Institute of Valencian Philology; Iraqi Academy of Sciences
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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 ...
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages; American Council of Teachers of Russian; Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America; Association for Logic, Language and Information; Association for Serbian language and literature in Croatia; Association of Departments of English
Language regulators (7 C, 140 P) S. Standard Persian (2 P) Sumerian language (5 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Standard languages" ... General American English;
The Language Access Act of 2004 guarantees equal access and participation in public services, programs, and activities for residents of the District of Columbia who cannot (or have limited capacity to) speak, read, or write English.
Linguistic prescription is a part of a language standardization process. [20] The chief aim of linguistic prescription is to specify socially preferred language forms (either generally, as in Standard English, or in style and register) in a way that is easily taught and learned. [21]