Academia de l'Aragonés
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The Academia de l'Aragonés (in English, Academy of the Aragonese) 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. It has 15 full members and 5 honorary members, and its current (as of 2010) president is Manuel Castán.
The aims of the Academy, according to its statute, are:
Aragonese language
Aragonese is a Romance language now spoken in a number of local varieties by between 10,000 and 30,000 people over the valleys of the Aragón River, Sobrarbe and Ribagorza in Aragon, Spain...
. It has no official recognition by the Aragonese government. It has 15 full members and 5 honorary members, and its current (as of 2010) president is Manuel Castán.
The aims of the Academy, according to its statute, are:
- Investigate all the oral and written manifestations of the Aragonese languageAragonese languageAragonese is a Romance language now spoken in a number of local varieties by between 10,000 and 30,000 people over the valleys of the Aragón River, Sobrarbe and Ribagorza in Aragon, Spain...
- 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