Academia de l'Aragonés

The Academia de l'Aragonés (in English, Academy of the Aragonese Language) is an organ founded on 15 July 2006 by the 2nd Congress on the Aragonese so as to be the linguistic authority for the Aragonese language. It has no official recognition by the Aragonese government.

The aims of the Academy, according to its statute, are:

• Investigate all the oral and written manifestations of the Aragonese language
• Gather and update its lexicon
• Regulate the Aragonese toponymy and onomastic
• Research and formulate spelling, grammar and phonetic rules for all the constitutive dialects
• Fix, develop and improve the standard modality
• Procure respect to the linguistic rights of Aragonese speakers

Academics

It has 15 full members and 5 honorary members, and its current (as of 2012) president is Manuel Castán.

External links

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• Official page

News articles

• "Una ´academia´ protegerá el aragonés", El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish), 14 July 2006 
• "La Academia de L'aragonés presentará en 2010 la nueva ortografía, cercana a la tradición literaria medieval", Europa Press, 5 December 2009 
• Mariano García (6 April 2010), "No escriba Bizén, escriba Vicent", Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish) 
• "Aragón tendrá una Academia de la Lengua Aragonesa", El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish), 31 December 2005 
• Mariano García (29 July 2010), "La Academia del Aragonés concluye su propuesta para la nueva ortografía", Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish)