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 [link] 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); 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 (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 [link] (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 include:
UK: Oxford University dictionaries US: Webster's Dictionary |
| 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 [link] |
| 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 (Brazilian) | Brazilian Academy of Letters |
| 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: Unregulated (Dictionary of the Scots Language records usage, including that of Ulster). Ireland: by the Ulster-Scots Agency (cross-border agency, invents usage). |
| 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 [link] |
| Thai | The Royal Institute (Thailand) (ราชบัณฑิตยสถาน) |
| Turkish | Türk Dil Kurumu [link] |
| Ukrainian | National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine |
| 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 [link]
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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 |
| Klingon | Marc Okrand and Klingon Language Institute |
| Lojban | Logical Language Group |
Interlingua is not regulated in the usual sense, as its vocabulary is the result of dynamically applying certain general design principles with respect to an existing set of natural languages with their etymologies and should therefore theoretically be mostly fixed independent from who is doing the "regulating".
See also
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