Academy of the Hebraic language

The Académie of the Hebraic language (in Hebrew, האקדמיהללשוןהעברית - HaAkademia LaLashon HaIvrit ) is an institution of the State of Israel, sitting at Jerusalem, and working for the research, the conservation and the development of the Hebrew . It is it which has the capacity to define the standard of modern Hebrew.

History

The Academy is created by a law of the Knesset in 1953. It takes the succession of the Comité for the Hebraic language created by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda in 1889 in Jerusalem. As of its origin, it launches the project of the historical Dictionnaire of the Hebraic language having for goal to restore the history of Hebrew, of biblical times at our days.

The Academy is made up of 23 people, as well academics, as of the writers or translators. It is sheltered by the Hebraic Université of Jerusalem.

Activities

Its principal activity, in addition to the drafting of the historical Dictionary , consists in inventing neologisms to develop the use of Hebrew in all the fields of the economic life and social. It is also charged to work out the normative grammar of modern Hebrew. To make it possible all the citizens of the State to know correct Hebrew, it sends in the public audio-visual mediums (public televisions, radio Kol Israel) of the advisers charged to correct the errors of the journalists, and to advise them in their use of the language. It has a service of answer per telephone on the questions of language which the citizens can be posed.

Its recommendations are published regularly in Rechoumot , the official journal of the State of Israel. Moreover, the Academy published dictionaries specialized in various fields (dental, finance, etc). Every two months, it publishes a small poster entitled Lamed be lechonekha (Sign your language) which corrects the most frequent errors and announces new neologisms. These small posters are then taken again in volume.

The linguistic advisers also have a one minute emission with the public radio to clear up a point of language, and half an hour a weekly emission takes place on public television to popularize and correct the Hebraic language. These two emissions always have a great success in Israel.

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