Language |
Territory |
Regulator(s) |
Afrikaans |
South Africa |
Die Taalkommissie |
Albanian |
Albania |
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana |
Arabic |
Algeria
Syria
Egypt
Jordan
Morocco
Iraq
Tunisia
Sudan
Israel
Somalia |
Academy of the Arabic Language (مجمع اللغة العربية) Algeria, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Iraq, Tunisia, Sudan, Israel |
Aragonese |
Aragon |
Academia de l'Aragonés,[2] Aragon, Spain |
Armenian |
Armenia |
Armenian National Academy of Sciences |
Asturian |
Asturias |
Academy of the Asturian Language (Academia de la Llingua Asturiana) |
Azerbaijani |
Azerbaijan |
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences |
Bengali / Bangla |
Bangladesh |
Bangla Academy, Dhaka |
West Bengal |
Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi, Kolkata, West Bengal |
Basque |
Basque Country |
Euskaltzaindia, often translated as Royal Academy of the Basque language |
Belarusian |
Belarus |
Iнстытут мовы i лiтаратуры iмя Я. Коласа і Я. Купалы Institut movy i litaraturi imya Y. Kolasa i Y. Kupali Нацыянальнай Акадэміі навук Беларусі Natsiyanal’nay Akademii navuk Belarusi — J. Kolas and J. Kupala Institute of Language and Literature at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus |
Berber or Tamazight |
Morocco |
IRCAM |
Algeria |
HCA |
Bulgarian |
Bulgaria |
Institute for Bulgarian Language[3] at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
Burmese |
Myanmar |
Myanmar Language Commission |
Catalan |
Catalonia |
Institute of Catalan Studies (Institut d'Estudis Catalans) |
Valencian Community |
Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua (for the Valencian standard) |
Cebuano |
Philippines |
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters |
Mandarin Chinese |
People's Republic of China |
State Language and Letters Committee (国家语言文字工作委员会) |
Republic of China (Taiwan) |
National Languages Committee (國語推行委員會) |
Singapore |
Promote Mandarin Council (讲华语运动理事会) |
Malaysia |
Chinese Language Standardisation Council of Malaysia (马来西亚华语规范理事会) |
Cornish |
Cornwall |
Cornish Language Partnership (Keskowethyans an Taves Kernewek) |
Croatian |
Croatia |
Council for Standard Croatian Language Norm (Vijeće za normu hrvatskoga standardnog jezika)
attached to the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics (Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje) [3]
|
Czech |
Czech Republic |
Czech Language Institute (Ústav pro jazyk český Akademie věd České republiky) |
Danish |
Denmark |
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Board) |
Dalecarlian |
Dalarna County |
Ulum Dalska |
Dari |
Afghanistan |
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan |
Dutch |
Netherlands
Belgium
Suriname |
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union) |
Dzongkha |
Bhutan |
Dzongkha Development Commission |
Estonian |
Estonia |
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 (Eesti Keele Instituut) [5] |
Faroese |
Faroe Islands |
Faroese Language Board (Føroyska málnevndin) |
Filipino |
Philippines |
Commission on the Filipino Language (Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino) website |
Finnish |
Finland |
Research Institute for the Languages of Finland |
French |
France |
Académie française (French Academy) |
Quebec |
Office québécois de la langue française (Quebec Office of the French Language) |
Friulian |
Friuli–Venezia Giulia |
Agjenzie Regjonâl pe Lenghe Furlane (Regional Agency for the Friulian Language) [6] |
Galician |
Galicia |
Royal Galician Academy (Real Academia Galega, official) |
German |
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
South Tyrol
Belgium
Liechtenstein |
Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung [7] (Council for German Orthogaphy) |
Haitian Creole |
Haiti |
Ministère de l'éducation nationale et de la formation professionnelle (Haitian department of education) |
Hebrew |
Israel |
The Academy of the Hebrew Language (האקדמיה ללשון העברית) |
Hindi |
India |
Central Hindi Directorate (regulates use of Devanagari script and Hindi spelling in India.[4]) |
Hmar |
India |
Hmar Literature Society (Manipur, India) |
Hungarian |
Hungary |
Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete) |
Icelandic |
Iceland |
Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies |
Igbo |
Nigeria |
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture |
Indonesian |
Indonesia |
Pusat Bahasa (Language Center) |
Irish |
Ireland
Northern Ireland |
Foras na Gaeilge |
Italian |
Italy |
Accademia della Crusca |
Japanese |
Japan |
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 |
Poland |
Radzëzna Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka (Commission of the Kashubian Language) [8] |
Kazakh |
Kazakhstan |
Ministry of Culture of Kazakhstan [9] |
Korean |
South Korea |
The National Institute of the Korean Language [10] (국립국어원) |
Kven |
Norway
|
Kainun institutti - kvensk institutt [11] |
Ladino |
Israel |
Autoridad Nasionala del Ladino (National Authority of Ladino) [12] |
Latin |
Holy See |
Latinitas Foundation (Opus Fundatum Latinitas) (Latin in the Roman Catholic Church)[5] |
|
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 |
Latvia |
Latvian State Language Center (Valsts Valodas Centrs) |
Lithuanian |
Lithuania |
Commission of the Lithuanian Language (Valstybinė lietuvių kalbos komisija) |
Lusoga |
Uganda |
Lusoga Language Authority (LULA) |
Macedonian |
Macedonia |
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov" ( Институт за македонски јазик „Крсте Мисирков“, Institut za makedonski jazik „Krste Misirkov“) |
Malay |
Malaysia
Brunei |
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (The Institute of Language and Literature) |
Maltese |
Malta |
National Council for the Maltese Language (www.kunsilltalmalti.gov.mt) |
Manx |
Isle of Man |
Coonceil ny Gaelgey |
Māori |
New Zealand |
Māori Language Commission |
Mirandese |
Portugal |
Anstituto de la Lhéngua Mirandesa (Institute of the Mirandese Language) |
Mixtec |
Mexico |
Academy of the Mixtec Language (Ve'e Tu'un Sávi) |
Mongolian |
Mongolia |
Council of the official state language (Төрийн хэлний зөвлөл). Decisions have to be confirmed by the Mongolian government. [13] |
Nepali |
Nepal |
Language Academy of Nepal |
Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) |
Norway |
Norwegian Language Council |
Occitan |
France
Spain
Monaco
Italy |
Associacion de Prefiguracion de l'Entitat de Regulacion de la Lenga Occitana. [14] |
Pashto |
Afghanistan
Pakistan |
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan |
Persian |
Iran
Tajikistan
Afghanistan
Uzbekistan |
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی) |
Polish |
Poland |
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego) |
Portuguese |
Brazil |
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy) |
Portugal |
Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras |
Romanian |
Romania |
Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Linguistics of the Romanian Academy) |
Moldova |
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei |
Russian |
Russian Empire |
Russian Academy (1783–1841) |
Russia |
Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1944) |
Scots |
Scotland |
The Scots language Centre supports the Scots language.[6] Scottish Language Dictionaries record and analyse the language as it is spoken and written throughout Scotland today.[7] |
Scottish Gaelic |
Scotland |
Bòrd na Gàidhlig maintains the national plan for Gaelic, to promote its use and make Gaelic culture accessible |
Secwepemctsín |
Canada |
Stk’wemiple7s re Secwepemctsin, are the group of people supported by the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society who develop new words. |
Serbian |
Serbia
Montenegro
( B & H) |
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language |
Sindhi |
Pakistan |
Sindhi Language Authority [15] |
Sinhala |
Sri Lanka |
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල) |
Slovak |
Slovakia |
Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics (Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra) at Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovenská akadémia vied) |
Slovene |
Slovenia |
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts |
Sorbian |
Germany |
Serbski institut [16] |
Spanish |
Spain
Colombia
Ecuador
Mexico
El Salvador
Venezuela
Chile
Peru
Guatemala
Costa Rica
Philippines
Panama
Cuba
Paraguay
Dominican Republic
Bolivia
Nicaragua
Argentina
Uruguay
Honduras
Puerto Rico
United States |
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 |
Tanzania |
Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa |
Swedish |
Sweden |
Swedish Language Council (semi-official) |
Finland |
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 |
Telugu |
Andhra Pradesh |
Telugu Academy and Official Language Commission of Government of Andhra Pradesh |
Tetum |
Timor-Leste |
National Institute of Linguistics at the National University of East Timor |
Thai |
Thailand |
Royal Institute of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสถาน) |
Turkish |
Turkey |
Turkish Language Association |
Ukrainian |
Ukraine |
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine |
Ulster Scots |
Northern Ireland
Ireland |
The Ulster-Scots Agency (Tha Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch) promotes greater awareness of Ulster-Scots cultural issues and the use of Ullans, both within Northern Ireland and throughout the island. "Ullans" understood to be the variety of the Scots language traditionally found in parts of Northern Ireland and Donegal.[8] |
Urdu |
Pakistan
India |
National Language Authority, Pakistan
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India |
Võro |
Estonia |
Võro Institute |
Waray-Waray |
Philippines |
Sanghiran San Binisaya ha Samar ug Leyte (Academy for Samar-Leyte Visayan) defunct |
Welsh |
Wales |
Welsh Language Board (Bwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg) [17] |
West Frisian |
Friesland |
Fryske Akademy (Frisian Academy) |
Wolof |
Senegal |
Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar (Center of Applied Linguistics of Dakar at the Cheikh Anta Diop University) |
Yiddish |
United States
Sweden
Russia |
YIVO [18] |
Yoruba |
Nigeria |
The Yoruba Academy |