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This is a list of bodies that consider themselves to be authorities on standard languages, often called language academies.Language academies are motivated by, or closely associated with, linguistic purism and prestige, and typically publish prescriptive dictionaries, [1] which purport to officiate and prescribe the meaning of words and pronunciations.
Bangladesh – BSTI – Bangladesh Standards and Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution; Barbados – BNSI – Barbados National Standards Institution; Belarus – BELST – Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Certification of Belarus; Belgium – NBN – Bureau voor Normalisatie / Bureau de Normalisation (formerly: IBN/BIN)
On May 12, 2009, the Language Industry Association of Canada, AILIA launched the latest standards certification program in the world. [4] The certification is based on CAN/CGSB-131.10-2008 , Translation Services, a national standard developed by the Canadian General Standards Board and approved by the Standards Council of Canada.
The standardization of a language is a continual process, because language is always changing and a language-in-use cannot be permanently standardized like the parts of a machine. [8] Standardization may originate from a motivation to make the written form of a language more uniform, as is the case of Standard English . [ 9 ]
The following is a non-exhaustive list of standardized tests that assess a person's language proficiency of a foreign/secondary language. Various types of such exams exist per many languages—some are organized at an international level even through national authoritative organizations, while others simply for specific limited business or study orientation.
An IETF BCP 47 language tag is a standardized code that is used to identify human languages on the Internet. [1] The tag structure has been standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) [ 1 ] in Best Current Practice (BCP) 47 ; [ 1 ] the subtags are maintained by the IANA Language Subtag Registry .
This is a list of published [Note 1] International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards and other deliverables. [Note 2] For a complete and up-to-date list of all the ISO standards, see the ISO catalogue. [1] The standards are protected by copyright and most of them must be purchased.
ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [1] Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [ 2 ] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3 , defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural ...