Academia Dominicana de la Lengua
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The Academia Dominicana de la Lengua http://www.academia.org.do
(variously translated as the Dominican Academy of Language, the Dominican Academy of the Language, the Dominican Academy of Letters, or glossed as the Dominican Academy of the Spanish Language; acronym ADL)
is the Dominican Republic
's correspondent academy
of the Royal Spanish Academy
. It was founded in Santo Domingo
on 12 October 1927 and, like the other academies, has the principal function of working to regulate the Spanish language
.
(variously translated as the Dominican Academy of Language, the Dominican Academy of the Language, the Dominican Academy of Letters, or glossed as the Dominican Academy of the Spanish Language; acronym ADL)
is the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
's correspondent academy
Association of Spanish Language Academies
The Association of Spanish Language Academies is the entity which regulates the Spanish language. It was created in Mexico in 1951 and represents the union of all the separate academies in the Spanish-speaking world....
of the Royal Spanish Academy
Real Academia Española
The Royal Spanish Academy is the official royal institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, but is affiliated with national language academies in twenty-one other hispanophone nations through the Association of Spanish Language Academies...
. It was founded in Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River...
on 12 October 1927 and, like the other academies, has the principal function of working to regulate the Spanish language
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
.
Members
- Mariano Lebrón SaviñónMariano Lebron SavinonMariano Lebrón Saviñón is a Dominican author of the 20th century. One of the founders of the first private university in the Dominican Republic, he named it, as the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, also writing its anthem.-External links:*...
- Federico Henríquez Gratereaux
- Bruno Rosario Candelier
- Rubén Suro García-Godoy
- Lupo Hernández Rueda
- Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez
- Víctor Villegas
- Rafael González Tirado
- Irene Pérez Guerra
- Marcio Veloz Maggiolo
- Diógenes Céspedes
- Carlos Esteban Deive
- Andrés L. Mateo
- Manuel Núñez Asencio
- Ricardo Miniño Gómez
- Pedro L. Vergés
- Ramón Emilio Reyes
- Manuel Matos Moquete
- Guillermo Piña-Fernández