Academy of the Hebrew Language

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Headquarters of the Academy of the Hebrew Language
Headquarters of the Academy of the Hebrew Language

The Academy of the Hebrew Language (הָאָקָדֶמְיָה לַלָּשׁוֹן הָעִבְרִית, Ha-akademya la-lashon ha-ʻIvrit) was established by the Israeli Government in 1953 as the "supreme institution for scholarship on the Hebrew language". It replaced the Hebrew Language Committee (Vaʻad ha-lashon ha-ʻIvrit), which was established in 1890. The Academy is responsible for creating new Hebrew words to keep up with today's rapidly changing society. In addition, the Academy regulates spelling, grammar, and vocabulary for government publications and the educational system. Ironically, though the organization's tasks include creating new words from Hebrew roots and structures to replace loanwords (which are derived from other languages), its own name is a loanword, "akademya"[1].

Zuckermann's 2008 article "Realistic Prescriptivism" "provides a critical analysis of the Academy's mission, as intriguingly defined in its constitution: 'to direct the development of Hebrew in light of its nature'". It argues that the Academy of the Hebrew Language "has begun submitting to the 'real world', accommodating its decrees to the parole of native Israeli speakers, long regarded as 'reckless' and 'lazy'."[2]

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  1. ^ See [1] for an explanation (Hebrew).
  2. ^ See p. 135 of 'Realistic Prescriptivism': The Academy of the Hebrew Language, its Campaign of 'Good Grammar' and Lexpionage, and the Native Israeli Speakers,Israel Studies in Language and Society 1.1 (2008), pp. 135-154, by Ghil'ad Zuckermann.

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