The Conseil international de la langue française (International Council for the French Language) is an association formed in 1968 in
Paris
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whose mission is to enrich the French language and to encourage its influence.
Its work involves producing linguistic tools for
French-speaking
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Nor ...
countries and to support relations with other language. It publishes multilingual dictionaries, in print and electronic media, and maintains a computerised database of
terminology
Terminology is a group of specialized words and respective meanings in a particular field, and also the study of such terms and their use; the latter meaning is also known as terminology science. A ''term'' is a word, compound word, or multi-wor ...
along with a database of spelling and grammar, available online through the
Orthonet service.
The Council also publishes educational materiels for French-speaking people and participates in projects on oral traditions and the interaction of languages and cultures. It also publishes the periodicals ''La banque des mots'' and ''Le français moderne''.
André Goosse
André Goosse (16 April 1926, Liège – 4 August 2019) was a Belgian grammarian. The son-in-law of Maurice Grevisse, he took over editing and updating Grevisse's last book, ''Le Bon Usage''. In 1988, he married the Belgian writer France Bastia. ...
is the president with
Hubert Joly
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as the secretary general. The advisors include
Henriette Walter
Henriette Walter (b. Henriette Saada, 5 March 1929 in Sfax, Tunisia) is a French linguist, emeritus professor of French at the University of Rennes 2, and director of the Phonology Laboratory at the École pratique des hautes études at the Sorbo ...
, ,
André Jaumotte,
Charles Muller,
Bernard Pottier
Bernard (''Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It is also a surname.
The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brav ...
,
Willy Bal,
Marc Wilmet
Marc Wilmet (28 August 1938 – 10 November 2018)Jean-Marie Klinkenberg
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg (born 8 October 1944) is a Belgian linguist and semiotician, professor at the State University of Liège, born in Verviers (Belgium) in 1944. Member of the interdisciplinary Groupe µ. President of the International As ...
.
External links
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Orthonet
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Francophonie
Organizations based in Paris
1968 establishments in France