The Academia de la Llingua Asturiana or Academy of the Asturian Language (ALLA) is an Official Institution of the Government of the

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that promotes and regulates the

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, a language of the

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Asturias Asturias (, ; ast, Asturies ), officially the Principality of Asturias ( es, Principado de Asturias; ast, Principáu d'Asturies; Galician-Asturian: ''Principao d'Asturias''), is an autonomous community in northwest Spain. It is coextensiv ...

. Among its principal objectives are investigating and normalizing the Asturian Language, developing a dictionary, promoting its use and education and awarding literary prizes. It has 21 full members, 19 foreign members and 15 honorary members, and its current (as of 2006) president is Ana María Cano González.

History

ALLA first notice appears in the 18th century, when

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and Carlos González de Posada talk in their letters about the idea of creating it in 1791. Jovellanos' project, however, was aborted because of his imprisonment in

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. In 1920s the Real Academia Asturiana de las Artes y las Letras (Royal Academy of Asturian Arts and Letters) was created by some intellectuals, including José Antonio García Peláez (Pin de Pría). It was divided in four sections and its principal objectives were to create an Asturian dictionary and grammar and to publish a magazine. Other sections were dedicated to promoting Asturian literature, theatre and music. But it was from 1980 when the Asturian pre-autonomous government, the Consejo Regional, approved the creation of the ALLA, founded 15 December of the same year. Xosé Lluis García Arias was its first president from that moment until 2001 when Ana Cano took over from him.

Works

In 1981 the ''Normes Ortográfiques y Conxugación de Verbos'' (''Orthographic Norms and Verb Conjugation''), the first academic work, was published. Other publications followed, such as the ''Gramática de la Llingua Asturiana'' (''Asturian Language Grammar'') in 1998 and the ''Diccionariu de la Llingua Asturiana'' (''Asturian Language Dictionary'') in 2000, also known as «DALLA». The ALLA also publish: * a bulletin featuring literary and linguistic studies about the Asturian language, called '' Lletres Asturianes'' (''Asturian Letters''

, * and another one with anthropological studies about Asturias: ''Cultures''. It also works as an editorial house, with book collections, such as: * ''Escolín'' (''Student'', children literature), * ''Llibrería facsimilar'' (''Facsimile library''), * ''Cartafueyos de lliteratura escaecida'' (''Notes on forgotten literature'', ancient works in Asturian Language), * ''Llibrería llingüística'' (''Linguistic Library'', linguistic studies

* or ''Llibrería académica'' (''Academical library'', literature). It also organized every year the ''Dia de les lletres asturianes'' (Day of Asturian Letters) since 1982, on the first Friday of May.

List of members

As of 2008, this is the complete list of members of the Academy of Asturian Language(Asturian) Academy of the Asturian Language websit

(Law 1/98 of use and promotion of Asturian language)

Full members

* Genaro Alonso Megido * Lluis Xabel Álvarez Fernández * Ramón d'Andrés Díaz * Emilio Barriuso Fernández * Xosé Bolado García * Ana María Cano González * Javier Fernández Conde * Xosé Lluis García Arias * Vicente García Oliva *

Manuel Asur Manuel Asur (Manuel Asur GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA) ( Güeria Carrocera, San Martín del Rey Aurelio, Asturias, 1947) is a Spanish essayist and poet in Asturian. He's considered to be one of the first modern poets in this language. He has a PhD degree in ...

González García * Xosé Antón González Riaño * Roberto González-Quevedo González * Xosé Ramón Iglesias Cueva * Carlos Lastra López * Francisco José Llera Ramo * Pablo Xuan Manzano Rodríguez * Josefina Martínez Álvarez * Miguel Ramos Corrada * Urbano Rodríguez Vázquez * Carlos Rubiera Tuya * Xuan Xosé Sánchez Vicente * Isabel Torrente Fernández * Mª Josefa Canellada Llavona (†) * Lorenzo Novo Mier (†)

Foreign members

* Lourdes Álvarez García *

Xuan Bello Xuan Bello Fernán (born 1965 in Tineo, Asturias, Spain) is a Spanish poet and one of the best-known contemporary Asturian writers. Life and work Poetry In 1982, at barely 16 years old, he published his first book of poems in Asturian, ''N ...

Fernán * Xurde Blanco Puente * Adolfo Camilo Díaz López * José Antonio Fernández Vior * Félix Ferreiro Currás * Xosé Ignaciu Fonseca Alonso * Ernesto García del Castillo * Corsino García Gutiérrez * Mª Esther García López * Xulio Llaneza Fernández * Alfonso Martín Caso * Próspero Morán López * Marta Mori de Arriba * Felipe Prieto García * David M. Rivas Infante * Vicente Rodríguez Hevia * Miguel Solís Santos * Juan Carlos Villaverde Amieva * Xosé Álvarez Fernández (†) * Manuel d'Andrés Fernández (†) * Andrés Solar Santurio (†)

Honorary members

* José Aurelio Álvarez Fernández * The President of the Coleutivu Manuel Fernández de Castro * The President of

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* Jesús Landeira * Júlio Meirinhos * Celso Muñiz * The President of the

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* The President of the

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* Emilio Alarcos Llorach (†) * Álvaro Galmés de Fuentes (†) * Joaquín Manzanares Rodríguez-Mir (†) * José Luis Pensado Tomé (†) * Alonso Zamora Vicente (†)

Reference publications

* Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (1993). ''Normes Ortográfiques y Conxugación de Verbos'' (4th ed.) . ALLA * Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (1999). ''Gramática de la Llingua Asturiana'' (2nd ed.). ALLA * Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). ''Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana''. ALLA

Notes

External links

Official site (in Asturian)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Academy Of The Asturian Language Language regulators Asturian language 1980 establishments in Spain Organizations established in 1980