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Academy of the Hebrew Language

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The plenum consists of 42 members. In addition, the Academy employs 8 academic advisors, among them respected scholars of language, linguistics, Judaic studies, and Bible. It also has 9 honorary members. The Academy's decisions are binding on all governmental agencies, including the
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Its stated aims are to assemble and research the Hebrew language in all its layers throughout the ages; to investigate the origin and development of the Hebrew tongue; and to direct the course of development of Hebrew, in all areas, including
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Although the academy's business is creating new words from Hebrew roots and structures to replace loanwords derived from other languages, its own name is a loanword, "akademya." It addresses this irony on its English website.
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Realistic Prescriptivism: The Academy of the Hebrew Language, its Campaign of "Good Grammar" and Lexpionage, and the Native Israeli Speakers
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Realistic Prescriptivism: The Academy of the Hebrew Language, its Campaign of "Good Grammar" and Lexpionage, and the Native Israeli Speakers
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According to Zuckermann, "the Historical Dictionary Project is the Academy's most important contribution", see Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2008),
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The Academy's mission, as defined in its constitution, is "to direct the development of Hebrew in light of its nature" (
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Its successor, the Academy of the Hebrew Language, has continued this mission of creating new
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government in 1953 as the "supreme institution for scholarship on the Hebrew language in the
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Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures
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Minority Languages and Language Policy: The Case of Arabic in Israel
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argues that this is an "oxymoronic" mission impossible: "If the
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it by language policing?", see Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2008),
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of a language is to evolve in a specific direction, why
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When Should Foreign Words Be Replaced By Hebrew Words?
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Historical Dictionary Project of the Hebrew Language
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Eliezer Ben Yehuda
Governmental organization
Language regulator
Givat Ram
Jerusalem
Israel
31°46′20.34″N 35°11′54.71″E / 31.7723167°N 35.1985306°E / 31.7723167; 35.1985306
Modern Hebrew
Aharon Maman
hebrew-academy.org.il
Hebrew
Israeli
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Givat Ram
vocabulary
grammar
writing
spelling
transliteration
Moshe Bar-Asher

Hebrew University
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
educational system
Hebrew
Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation
Study of the Hebrew language
List of language regulators
Revival of the Hebrew language

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