List of language regulators

This is a list of language regulators - organisations which guard the evolution of a language.

Natural languages
 Language Territory Regulator(s) Afrikaans  Die Taalkommissie Akan  Akan Orthography Committee (AOC) Albanian  Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana Arabic  Academy of the Arabic Language (مجمع اللغة العربية) Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, SudanIsraelArabic Language International Council Aragonese  Academia de l'Aragonés, Aragon, Spain Armenian  Armenian National Academy of Sciences (Հայաստան) Assamese  Assam Asam Sahitya Sabha (অসম সাহিত্য সভা) Asturian 25px Asturias Academy of the Asturian Language (Academia de la Llingua Asturiana) Azerbaijani  Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Basque  Basque Country25px Navarre French Basque Country Euskaltzaindia, often translated as Royal Academy of the Basque language Belarusian  The Jakub Kolas and Janka Kupala Institute of Language and Literature at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Bengali (Bangla)  Bangla Academy (বাংলা একাডেমি)  West Bengal Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi (পশ্চিমবঙ্গ বাংলা আকাদেমি) Berber or Tamazight  Royal Institute of Amazight Culture (IRCAM)  HCA  Central Bikol  Academia Bicolana defunct Bosnian  Sandžak University of Sarajevo Bulgarian  Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Burmese  Myanmar Language Commission Cantonese  Official Language Division, Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong Catalan  Institute of Catalan Studies (Institut d'Estudis Catalans) 25px Valencian Community Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua (for the Valencian standard) Cebuano  Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters (Akademyang Bisaya) Cherokee 25px Cherokee Nation Council of the Cherokee Nation (ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ) Standard Chinese  State Language Work Committee (国家语言文字工作委员会)  National Languages Committee (國語推行委員會)  Promote Mandarin Council (讲华语运动理事会)  Chinese Language Standardisation Council of Malaysia (马来西亚华语规范理事会) Cornish  Cornish Language Partnership (Keskowethyans an Taves Kernewek) Croatian  Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics (Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje) Czech  Institute of the Czech Language (of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) () Danish  Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Council) Dalecarlian  Dalarna County Ulum Dalska Dari  Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan Divehi  Dhivehi Academy Dutch  Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union) Dzongkha  Dzongkha Development Commission Estonian  Emakeele Seltsi keeletoimkond  (Language Board at the Mother Tongue Society) sets rules and standards, authoritative advice is given by the Institute of the Estonian Language (Eesti Keele Instituut) Faroese  Faroese Language Council (Málráðið) Filipino  Commission on the Filipino Language (Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino) Finnish  Research Institute for the Languages of Finland French  Académie française (French Academy)  Office québécois de la langue française (Quebec Office of the French Language) Galician  Royal Galician Academy (Real Academia Galega) German 25px South Tyrol Council for German Orthography (Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung) Greenlandic  The Greenland Language Secretariat (Oqaasileriffik) Greek  Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας) Guarani Guarani Language Academy (Guarani Ñe’ ẽ Rerekuapavẽ) Haitian Creole   (Haitian Creole Academy) Hebrew  Academy of the Hebrew Language (האקדמיה ללשון העברית) Hindi  Central Hindi Directorate (regulates use of Devanagari script and Hindi spelling in India) Hmar  Hmar Literature Society (Manipur, India) Hungarian  Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete) Icelandic  Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies Igbo  Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture Indonesian  Language and Book Development Agency (Badan Pengembangan Bahasa dan Perbukuan) Irish  Foras na Gaeilge Italian  Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran) 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  Karnataka Various academies and Government of Karnataka Kashubian  Commission of the Kashubian Language  Kazakh  Ministry of Culture of Kazakhstan  Korean  National Institute of the Korean Language (국립국어원) Kven  Kainun institutti – kvensk institutt Kyrgyz  National Committee for State Language under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic (Кыргыз Республикасынын Президентине караштуу Мамлекеттик тил боюнча улуттук комиссия) Latin  Pontifical Academy for Latin (Pontificia Academia Latinitatis) (Latin in the Roman Catholic Church) International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy: botanical Latin) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature: zoological Latin) Latvian  Latvian State Language Center (Valsts Valodas Centrs) Lithuanian  Commission of the Lithuanian Language (Valstybinė lietuvių kalbos komisija) Lusoga  Lusoga Language Authority (LULA) Macedonian  Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov" (Институт за македонски јазик „Крсте Мисирков“, Institut za makedonski jazik „Krste Misirkov“) Malay  Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (The Institute of Language and Literature) Malayalam  Kerala Kerala Sahitya Akademi (കേരള സാഹിത്യ പരിശീലന സ്ഥാപനം) and Government of Kerala Maltese  National Council for the Maltese Language (www.kunsilltalmalti.gov.mt) Manx  Coonceil ny Gaelgey Māori  Māori Language Commission Mirandese  Anstituto de la Lhéngua Mirandesa (Institute of the Mirandese Language) Mixtec  Academy of the Mixtec Language (Ve'e Tu'un Sávi) Mongolian  Council of the official state language (Төрийн хэлний зөвлөл). Decisions have to be confirmed by the Mongolian government. Nepali  Language Academy of Nepal Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk)  Norwegian Language Council Occitan  Lo Congrès Permanent de la lenga occitana (the permanent congress of occitan language)  Pashto  Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan  Pashto Academy Persian  Academy of Persian Language and Literature () Polish  Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego) Portuguese  Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras  Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy) Quechua  High Academy of the Quechua Language (Qheswa simi hamut'ana kuraq suntur) Romanian  Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Linguistics of the Romanian Academy)  Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei Russian  Russian Academy (1783–1841)  Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1944) Scots  The Scots Language Centre supports the Scots language. Scottish Language Dictionaries record and analyse the language as it is spoken and written throughout Scotland and Ulster today. Secwepemctsín  Stk'wemiple7s re Secwepemctsin, are the group of people supported by the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society who develop new words. Serbian and Montenegrin  Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language Sindhi  Sindhi Language Authority  Sinhala  Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල) Slovak  Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics (Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra) at Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovenská akadémia vied) Slovene  Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Somali  Regional Somali Language Academy Sorbian  Serbski institut  Spanish  Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (constituted by the Real Academia Española plus 22 other separate national academies in the Spanish-speaking world) Swahili  Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa  Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa Swedish  Swedish Language Council (semi-official)Swedish Academy  Swedish Language Department of the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland (Svenska språkbyrån) Tamil  Tamil Nadu Thanjavur Tamil University and Official Language Commission of Government of Tamil Nadu  Department of Official Languages, Sri Lanka Tatar  Institute of Language, Literature and Arts of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan Telugu  Andhra Pradesh Telugu Academy and Official Language Commission of Government of Andhra Pradesh Tetum  National Institute of Linguistics at the National University of East Timor Thai  Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา) Turkish  Turkish Language Association Ukrainian  National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Urdu  National Language Authority, Pakistan  National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India Urhobo  Urhobo Studies Association Võro  Võro Institute Waray  Sanghiran san Binisaya ha Samar ug Leyte (Academy of the Visayan Language of Samar and Leyte) defunct Welsh  Welsh Language Commissioner (Meri Huws)— The Welsh Government(previously the Welsh Language Board Bwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg)(Principally, however, the role of the Welsh Language Commissioner is that of language planning and policy regulator and enforcer. The role also includes corpus planning.) 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) Yiddish  YIVO  Yoruba  Yoruba Academy

 Auxiliary languages 
 Language Regulator(s) 25px Esperanto Akademio de Esperanto 25px Ido Uniono por la Linguo Internaciona Ido 25px Lojban Logical Language Group 25px Volapük Kadäm Bevünetik Volapüka

 References 


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