Languages |
Regulators |
Afrikaans |
Die
Taalkommissie, South
Africa |
Arabic |
Academy
of the Arabic Language (مجمع اللغة العربية,
Syria,
Egypt,
Jordan,
Morocco,
Iraq) |
Aragonese |
Academia
de l'Aragonés [1],
Aragon,
Spain |
Armenian |
Armenian
Academy of Sciences |
Asturian |
Academia
de la Llingua Asturiana |
Bangla
/ Bengali |
Bangla
Academy, Dhaka,
Bangladesh,
or Paschimbanga
Bangla Academy, Kolkata,
West
Bengal |
Basque |
Euskaltzaindia |
Belarusian |
Iнстытут мовы i лiтаратуры iмя Я. Коласа і Я. Купалы
Нацыянальнай Акадэміі навук Беларусі
— J.
Kolas and J. Kupala Institute of Language and Literature
at the National
Academy of Sciences of Belarus |
Bulgarian |
Institute
for Bulgarian Language [2]
at the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences |
Burmese |
Myanmar
Language Commission |
Catalan |
Institut
d'Estudis Catalans and Acadèmia
Valenciana de la Llengua (for the valencian
standard) |
Mandarin
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 |
Agan
Tavas - Our Language (Unified Cornish and Unified
Cornish Revised);
Cussel
an Tavas Kernuak - Cornish Language Council (Revived
Late Cornish); Kesva
an Taves Kernewek - Cornish Language Board (Kernewek
Kemmyn) |
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 česky) |
Danish |
Dansk
Sprogn?vn (Danish Language Board) |
Dalecarlian |
Ulum
Dalska |
Dutch |
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch
Language Union) |
Estonian |
Language
Board at the Mother Tongue Society [4]
(Emakeele Seltsi keeletoimkond) sets rules and standards,
authoritative advice is given by the Institute
of the Estonian Language [5] |
Faroese |
Faroese
Language Board (Føroyska málnevndin) |
Filipino |
Komisyon
sa Wikang Filipino [6] |
Finnish |
Kielitoimisto
(Language Planning Department of the Research
Institute for the Languages of Finland) |
French |
Académie
française (French Academy), Office
québécois de la langue française
(Quebec Office of the French Language), Conseil
pour le développement du Français en Louisiane
(Council for the Development of French in Louisiana) |
Frisian |
Fryske
Akademy (Frisian Academy) |
Galician |
Real
Academia Gallega (Royal Galician Academy, official) |
German |
Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung [7]
(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 |
Árni
Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies |
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 |
Kashubian |
Radzëzna Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka
(Commission of the Kashubian Language) [8] |
Korean |
The
National Institute of the Korean Language [9]
(국립국어원) |
Latin |
Opus Fundatum Latinitas |
Latvian |
Latvian
State Language Center (Valsts Valodas Centrs) |
Limburgish |
Differs from town to town. Most regulators use Veldeke
as a base. |
Lithuanian |
Commission
of the Lithuanian Language (Valstybinė lietuvių
kalbos komisija) |
Lusoga |
Lusoga
Language Authority, (LULA) (Uganda) |
Macedonian |
Macedonian
Language Institute "Krste Misirkov", |
Malay |
Dewan
Bahasa dan Pustaka (The Institute of Language and
Literature) |
Maltese |
Akkademja
tal-Malti |
Maori |
Maori
Language Commission |
Mixtec |
Ve'e
Tu'un Sávi (Academy of the Mixtec Language) |
Norwegian
(Bokmål and Nynorsk) |
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 [10]
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 Gaidhlig 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[11] |
Slovak |
Slovak
Academy of Sciences (Slovenská akadémia
vied) |
Slovene |
Slovene
Academy of Sciences and Arts |
Spanish |
Asociación
de Academias de la Lengua Española (constituted
by the Real
Academia Española plus 21 other separate national
academies in the Spanish speaking world) |
Swahili |
Baraza
la Kiswahili la Taifa |
Swedish |
Swedish
Language Council (semi-official) |
Swedish
(Finland) |
Svenska
språkbyrån (Swedish Language Department
of the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland) |
Tamil |
Various academics and Government
of Tamilnadu,
Tamil_University
and Tamil_Open_University |
Telugu |
Telugu Academy and Official Language Comission of
Government
of Andhra Pradesh |
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) [12]
defunct |
Welsh |
Welsh
Language Board (Bwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg) [13] |
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
[14] |
Yoruba |
The
Yoruba Academy |
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.