List of language regulators

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This is a list of bodies that regulate languages.

Arabic Academy of the Arabic Language (مجمع اللغة العربية, Egypt)
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 [1] at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Catalan Institut d'Estudis Catalans
Chinese State Language and Letters Committee of the PRC (国家语言文字工作委员会); Mandarin is also regulated by the Mandarin Promotion Council (國語推行委員會) in the Republic of China
Cornish Kesva an Taves Kernewek (Cornish Language Board)
Croatian Vijeće za normu hrvatskoga standardnog jezika (Council for Standard Croatian Language Norm)

attached to the Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje [2] (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics)

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 centralized regulator, but recognized standards by:

Oxford University (international)
Dictionaries

Faroese Føroyska málnevndin (Faroese Language Board)
Finnish Kielitoimisto (Language Planning Department of the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland)
French 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)

Comissom Lingüística da AGAL (not official, lusist standard)

German No official regulator, but recognized standard by Duden dictionaries and reference books
Hebrew Academy of the Hebrew Language (האקדמיה ללשון העברית)
Hindi Central Hindi Directorate [3]
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 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)
Malay Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (Council 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)
Persian Academy of Persian Language and Literature, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Polish Rada Języka Polskiego (Polish Language Council)
Portuguese Instituto Internacional de Língua Portuguesa (International Portuguese Language Institute)
Portuguese (Brazilian) Brazilian Academy of Letters
Romanian (Romania) Academia Română
Romanian (Moldova) Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei
Russian Russian Academy of Sciences
Scots Scotland: Unregulated (Dictionary of the Scots Language has great authority). Ireland: by the Ulster-Scots Agency (cross-border agency).
Scottish Gaelic Bòrd na Gàidhlig
Slovak Slovak Academy of Sciences
Slovene Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts
Spanish Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
Real Academia Española
Serbian Matica Srpska
Swedish Swedish Language Council
Swedish (Finland-Swedish) Svenska språkbyrån (Swedish Language Department of the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland)
Tagalog Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino [4]
Thai The Royal Institute (Thailand) (ราชบัณฑิตยสถาน)
Turkish Türk Dil Kurumu [5]
Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Valencian Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua
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 [6]

Constructed languages

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
Interlingua Union Mundial pro Interlingua
Klingon Marc Okrand and Klingon Language Institute
Lojban Logical Language Group

See also