List of language regulators

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This is a list of bodies that regulate standard languages.

Afrikaans Die Taalkommissie, South Africa
Arabic Academy of the Arabic Language (مجمع اللغة العربية, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco)
Aragonese Academia de l'Aragonés[1], Aragon, Spain
Asturian Academia de la Llingua Asturiana
Bangla / Bengali Paschimbanga Bangla Academy, Kolkata, West Bengal,

or Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Basque Euskaltzaindia
Bulgarian Institute for Bulgarian Language [2] at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Catalan Institut d'Estudis Catalans and Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua (for the valencian standard)
Chinese State Language and Letters Committee of the PRC (国家语言文字工作委员会); Standard Mandarin is also regulated by the Mandarin Promotion Council (國語推行委員會) of the Republic of China
Cornish Kesva an Taves Kernewek - Cornish Language Board (Kernewek Kemmyn); Agan Tavas - Our Language (Unified Cornish and Unified Cornish Revised)
Croatian Vijeće za normu hrvatskoga standardnog jezika (Council for Standard Croatian Language Norm)

attached to the Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje [3] (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics)

Czech Czech Language Institute (Ústav pro jazyk český)
Dänisch Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Board)
Dalecarlian Ulum Dalska
Dutch Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Englisch None
Esperanto Akademio de Esperanto
Faroese Føroyska málnevndin (Faroese Language Board)
Filipino Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino [4]
Finnish Kielitoimisto (Language Planning Department of the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland)
French (France) Académie française (French Academy)
French (Quebec) Office québécois de la langue française (Quebec Office of the French Language)
Galician Real Academia Galega (Royal Galician Academy, official)
German Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung [5] (Council for German Spelling)
Hebrew Academy of the Hebrew Language (האקדמיה ללשון העברית)
Hindi Central Hindi Directorate (regulates use of Devanagari script and Hindi spelling in India.[1])
Hungarian Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete (Research Institute for Linguistics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Icelandic Íslensk málstöð
Indonesian Pusat Bahasa (Language Center)
Irish Foras na Gaeilge
Italian Accademia della Crusca
Japanese No official centralized regulation, but de facto regulations by Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education of Japan (文部科学省)
Kannada Various academies and Government of Karnataka
Korean National Institute of Korean Language (국립 국어원)
Latin Opus Fundatum Latinitas
Latvian Latvian State Language Center (Valsts Valodas Centrs)
Lithuanian Valstybinė lietuvių kalbos komisija (State Commission of the Lithuanian Language)
Lusoga Lusoga Language Authority, (LULA) (Uganda)
Malay Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (Guild of Language and Literature)
Maltese Akkademja tal-Malti
Maori Maori Language Commission
Norwegian (traditional) Norsk Akademi for Sprog og Litteratur (Norwegian Academy)
Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) Språkrådet (Norwegian Language Council)
Occitan Conselh de la Lenga Occitana (Occitan Language Council)
Persian Academy of Persian Language and Literature, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Polish Rada Języka Polskiego (Polish Language Council)
Portuguese (Brazil) Academia Brasileira de Letras
Portuguese (Portugal) Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Romanian (Romania) Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Linguistics of the Romanian Academy)
Romanian (Moldova) Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei
Russian Russian Language Institute [6] at the Russian Academy of Sciences
Scots Scotland: Scots Tung, promotes Lowland Scots.

Ireland: the Ulster-Scots Agency, a cross-border agency, promotes Ulster Scots.

Scottish Gaelic Bòrd na Gàidhlig maintains the national plan for Gaelic, to promote its use and make Gaelic culture accessible
Serbian Matica Srpska, Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Sindhi Sindhi Language Authority[7]
Slovak Slovak Academy of Sciences
Slovene Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts
Spanish Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
Real Academia Española
Swahili Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa
Swedish Swedish Language Council
Swedish (Finland-Swedish) Svenska språkbyrån (Swedish Language Department of the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland)
Tetum National Institute of Linguistics at the National University of East Timor
Thai The Royal Institute (Thailand) (ราชบัณฑิตยสถาน)
Turkish Turkish Language Association
Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Urdu National Language Authority, Pakistan
Võro Võro Institute
Waray Sanghiran San Binisaya ha Samar ug Leyte (Academy for Samar-Leyte Visayan) [8] defunct
West Frisian Fryske Akademy (Frisian Academy)
Wolof Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar (Center of Applied Linguistics of Dakar at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal)
Yiddish YIVO [9]

Auxiliary languages

Interlingua

The auxiliary language Interlingua has no regulating body, as its vocabulary, grammar, and orthography are viewed as a product of ongoing social forces. In theory, Interlingua therefore evolves independent from any human regulator. Interlingua's vocabulary is verified and recorded by dynamically applying certain general principles to an existing set of natural languages and their etymologies.

Constructed languages

With the exception of Interlingua, all other auxiliary languages have been constructed by a person or small group. Constructed languages are by definition their inventors' regulations, so language planning, as known in natural languages, does not exist independent of the language itself.

Esperanto Akademio de Esperanto
Ido Uniono por la Linguo Internaciona Ido
Klingon Marc Okrand and Klingon Language Institute
Lojban Logical Language Group

References

See also