| Language
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Territory
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Regulator(s)
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| Afrikaans
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 South Africa
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Die Taalkommissie
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| Akan
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 Ghana
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Akan Orthography Committee (AOC)
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| Albanian
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 Albania
 Kosovo
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Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
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| Arabic
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 Algeria
 Egypt
 Iraq
 Jordan
 Morocco
 Somalia
 Sudan
 Syria
 Tunisia
 Israel
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Academy of the Arabic Language (مجمع اللغة العربية) Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, Sudan
Israel
Arabic Language International Council
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| Aragonese
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 Aragon
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Academia de l'Aragonés, Aragon, Spain
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| Armenian
|
 Armenia
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Armenian National Academy of Sciences (Հայաստան)
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| Assamese
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 Assam
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Asam Sahitya Sabha (অসম সাহিত্য সভা)
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| Asturian
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 Asturias
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Academy of the Asturian Language (Academia de la Llingua Asturiana)
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| Azerbaijani
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 Azerbaijan
 Iran
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Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
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| Basque
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 Basque Country
 Navarre
 French Basque Country
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Euskaltzaindia, often translated as Royal Academy of the Basque language
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| Belarusian
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 Belarus
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The Jakub Kolas and Janka Kupala Institute of Language and Literature[1] at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
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| Bengali (Bangla)
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 Bangladesh
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Bangla Academy (বাংলা একাডেমি)
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| West Bengal
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Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi (পশ্চিমবঙ্গ বাংলা আকাদেমি)
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| Berber or Tamazight
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Morocco
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Royal Institute of Amazight Culture (IRCAM)
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| Algeria
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HCA Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback Machine
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| Central Bikol
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 Philippines
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Academia Bicolana defunct
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| Bosnian
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 Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Sandžak
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University of Sarajevo
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| Bulgarian
|
 Bulgaria
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Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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| Burmese
|
 Myanmar
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Myanmar Language Commission
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| Cantonese
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 Hong Kong
 Macau
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Official Language Division, Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong
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| Catalan
|
 Catalonia
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Institute of Catalan Studies (Institut d'Estudis Catalans)
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 Valencian Community
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Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua (for the Valencian standard)
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| Cebuano
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Philippines
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Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters (Akademyang Bisaya)
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| Cherokee
|
 Cherokee Nation
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Council of the Cherokee Nation (ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ)
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| Standard Chinese
|
 People's Republic of China
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State Language Work Committee (国家语言文字工作委员会)
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 Republic of China (Taiwan)
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National Languages Committee (國語推行委員會)
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 Singapore
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Promote Mandarin Council (讲华语运动理事会)
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 Malaysia
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Chinese Language Standardisation Council of Malaysia (马来西亚华语规范理事会)
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| Cornish
|
 Cornwall
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Cornish Language Partnership (Keskowethyans an Taves Kernewek)
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| Croatian
|
 Croatia
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Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics (Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje)
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| Czech
|
 Czech Republic
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Institute of the Czech Language (of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) (Ústav pro jazyk český (Akademie věd České republiky))
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| Danish
|
 Denmark
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Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Council)
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| Dalecarlian
|
 Dalarna County
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Ulum Dalska
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| Dari
|
 Afghanistan
|
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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| Divehi
|
 Maldives
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Dhivehi Academy
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| Dutch
|
 Netherlands
 Belgium
 Suriname
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Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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| Dzongkha
|
 Bhutan
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Dzongkha Development Commission
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| Estonian
|
 Estonia
|
Emakeele Seltsi keeletoimkond Archived 2012-07-31 at the Wayback Machine (Language Board at the Mother Tongue Society) sets rules and standards, authoritative advice is given by the Institute of the Estonian Language (Eesti Keele Instituut)
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| Faroese
|
 Faroe Islands
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Faroese Language Council (Málráðið)
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| Filipino
|
Philippines
|
Commission on the Filipino Language (Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino)
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| Finnish
|
 Finland
|
Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
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| French
|
France
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Académie française (French Academy)
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 Quebec
|
Office québécois de la langue française (Quebec Office of the French Language)
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| Galician
|
 Galicia
|
Royal Galician Academy (Real Academia Galega)
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| German
|
 Germany
 Austria
 Switzerland
 South Tyrol
Belgium
 Liechtenstein
 Luxembourg
|
Council for German Orthography (Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung)
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| Greenlandic
|
 Greenland
|
The Greenland Language Secretariat (Oqaasileriffik)
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| Greek
|
 Greece
 Cyprus
|
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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| Guarani
|
 Paraguay
|
Guarani Language Academy (Guarani Ñe’ ẽ Rerekuapavẽ)
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| Haitian Creole
|
 Haiti
|
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Haitian Creole Academy)
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| Hebrew
|
Israel
|
Academy of the Hebrew Language (האקדמיה ללשון העברית)
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| Hindi
|
India
|
Central Hindi Directorate (regulates use of Devanagari script and Hindi spelling in India)
|
| Hmar
|
India
|
Hmar Literature Society (Manipur, India)[source?]
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| Hungarian
|
 Hungary
|
Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
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| Icelandic
|
 Iceland
|
Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
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| Igbo
|
 Nigeria
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Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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| Indonesian
|
 Indonesia
|
Language and Book Development Agency (Badan Pengembangan Bahasa dan Perbukuan)
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| Irish
|
 Ireland
 Northern Ireland
|
Foras na Gaeilge
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| Italian
|
 Italy
 San Marino
Switzerland
 Vatican City
|
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
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| 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
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| Kashubian
|
 Poland
|
Commission of the Kashubian Language [1]
|
| Kazakh
|
 Kazakhstan
|
Ministry of Culture of Kazakhstan Archived 2011-11-02 at the Wayback Machine
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| Korean
|
 South Korea
|
National Institute of the Korean Language (국립국어원)
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| Kven
|
 Norway
|
Kainun institutti – kvensk institutt
|
| Kyrgyz
|
 Kyrgyzstan
|
National Committee for State Language under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic[permanent dead link] (Кыргыз Республикасынын Президентине караштуу Мамлекеттик тил боюнча улуттук комиссия)
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| Latin
|
 Holy See
|
Pontifical Academy for Latin (Pontificia Academia Latinitatis) (Latin in the Roman Catholic Church)[2]
|
|
|
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy: botanical Latin)
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|
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International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature: zoological Latin)
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| Latvian
|
 Latvia
|
Latvian State Language Center (Valsts Valodas Centrs)
|
| Lithuanian
|
 Lithuania
|
Commission of the Lithuanian Language (Valstybinė lietuvių kalbos komisija)
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| Lusoga
|
 Uganda
|
Lusoga Language Authority (LULA)
|
| Macedonian
|
 North Macedonia
|
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov" (Институт за македонски јазик „Крсте Мисирков“, Institut za makedonski jazik „Krste Misirkov“)
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| Malay
|
Malaysia
 Brunei
|
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (The Institute of Language and Literature)
|
| Malayalam
|
Kerala
|
Kerala Sahitya Akademi (കേരള സാഹിത്യ പരിശീലന സ്ഥാപനം) and Government of Kerala
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| Maltese
|
 Malta
|
National Council for the Maltese Language (www.kunsilltalmalti.gov.mt)
|
| Manx
|
 Isle of Man
|
Coonceil ny Gaelgey
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| 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.[3]
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| Nepali
|
 Nepal
|
Language Academy of Nepal
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| Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk)
|
Norway
|
Norwegian Language Council
|
| Occitan
|
France
 Spain
 Monaco
Italy
|
Lo Congrès Permanent de la lenga occitana (the permanent congress of occitan language) [2]
|
| Pashto
|
Afghanistan
|
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
|
 Pakistan
|
Pashto Academy
|
| 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
|
Portugal
|
Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
|
 Brazil
|
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy)
|
| Quechua
|
 Peru
|
High Academy of the Quechua Language (Qheswa simi hamut'ana kuraq suntur)
|
| Romanian
|
 Romania
|
Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Linguistics of the Romanian Academy)
|
 Moldova
|
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei
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| 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.[4] Scottish Language Dictionaries record and analyse the language as it is spoken and written throughout Scotland and Ulster today.[5]
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| Secwepemctsín
|
 Canada
|
Stk'wemiple7s re Secwepemctsin, are the group of people supported by the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society who develop new words.
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| Serbian and Montenegrin
|
 Serbia
 Montenegro
|
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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| Sindhi
|
Pakistan
|
Sindhi Language Authority [3]
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| 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
|
| Somali
|
 Djibouti
 Ethiopia
Somalia
|
Regional Somali Language Academy
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| Sorbian
|
Germany
|
Serbski institut [4]
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| Spanish
|
Spain
 Colombia
 Ecuador
Mexico
 El Salvador
 Venezuela
 Chile
Peru
 Guatemala
 Costa Rica
Philippines
 Panama
 Cuba
Paraguay
 Bolivia
 Dominican Republic
 Nicaragua
 Argentina
 Uruguay
 Honduras
 Puerto Rico
 United States
 Equatorial Guinea
|
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (constituted by the Real Academia Española plus 22 other separate national academies in the Spanish-speaking world)
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| Swahili
|
 Tanzania
|
Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa
|
 Kenya
|
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa
|
| Swedish
|
Sweden
|
Swedish Language Council (semi-official)
Swedish Academy
|
| 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
|
| Sri Lanka
|
Department of Official Languages, Sri Lanka
|
| Tatar
|
 Tatarstan
|
Institute of Language, Literature and Arts of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan
|
| 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 Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
|
| Turkish
|
 Turkey
Azerbaijan
Iran
|
Turkish Language Association
|
| Ukrainian
|
 Ukraine
|
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
|
| Urdu
|
Pakistan
|
National Language Authority, Pakistan
|
| India
|
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India
|
| Urhobo
|
Nigeria
|
Urhobo Studies Association
|
| Võro
|
Estonia
|
Võro Institute
|
| Waray
|
Philippines
|
Sanghiran san Binisaya ha Samar ug Leyte (Academy of the Visayan Language of Samar and Leyte) defunct
|
| Welsh
|
 Wales
|
Welsh Language Commissioner (Meri Huws)
— The Welsh Government
(previously the Welsh Language Board Bwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg)(Principally, however, the role of the Welsh Language Commissioner is that of language planning and policy regulator and enforcer. The role also includes corpus planning.)
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| 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 [5]
|
| Yoruba
|
Nigeria
|
Yoruba Academy
|