Jørn Lund (born 30 January 1946) is a Danish linguist who is professor of

Danish language Danish (, ; , ) is a North Germanic languages, North Germanic language from the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark. Communities of Danish speakers are a ...

at Danmarks Lærerhøjskole, and since 2013 chairman of

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(the Danish council for regulation of the Danish language). He is the author of the ''Great Dictionary of Danish Pronunciation'' (1990, with Lars Brink) and the two-volume ''Standard Danish'' (''Dansk rigsmål'') (1975, also with Lars Brink), as well as a number of popular books about the Danish language. He was also the chairman of several government councils for language and cultural politics, notably the council that produced the

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in 2007. Since 1980 he is a member of the

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. from 1991 to 2001 he was the Editor in Chief of ''

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'' (''The Great Danish Encyclopedia''). He is a fellow of the

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. He writes a weekly column in the Danish newspaper

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