Afrikaans |
Die Taalkommissie, South Africa |
Arabic |
Academy of the Arabic Language (مجمع اللغة العربية, Egypt) |
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, Euskerazaintza (for dialects) |
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)
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Czech |
Czech Language Institute (Ústav pro jazyk český) |
Danish |
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Board) |
Dalecarlian |
Ulum Dalska |
Dutch |
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union) |
English |
No official regulator, but accepted regulations are printed in the Oxford University dictionaries for Oxford English and to a lesser extent Webster's Dictionary for American English. |
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 [6] |
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 |
Instituto Internacional da Língua Portuguesa |
Romanian (Romania) |
Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Linguistics of the Romanian Academy) |
Romanian (Moldova) |
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei |
Russian |
Russian Academy of Sciences |
Scots |
Scotland: Scots Tung, promotes Lowland Scots.
Ireland: the Ulster-Scots Agency, a cross-border agency, promotes Ulster Scots.
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Scottish Gaelic |
Bòrd na Gàidhlig maintains the national plan for Gaelic, to promote its use and make Gaelic culture accessable |
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) |
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] |