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The attention of the academy has also been towards the persistent infiltration of Persian, like many other languages, with foreign words, as a result of the globalization process. The academy constantly campaigns for the use of Persian equivalents of new loanwords. If no equivalents exist, it has the
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as acceptable sources for coining words. The ultimate goal was to prevent books from being printed with wrong use of words. According to the executive guarantee of this association, the government was responsible for wrongfully-printed books. Words coined by this association, such as
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task of linguistically deriving such words from existing Persian roots, and promoting the adoption of these new coinages in the daily lives. The Iranian law requires those equivalents to be used in the official media, governmental affairs, and product management of all companies.
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The academy strives to protect the integrity of the Persian language. It heads the academic efforts for linguistic research on the Persian language and its sister Iranian languages. It has also created an official orthography of Persian.
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has been used in a variety of publications including cultural, scientific, and diplomatic documents for centuries and, therefore, it carries a very significant historical and cultural meaning. Hence, changing
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The academy was a key institution in the struggle to re-build Iran as a nation-state after the collapse of the Qajar dynasty. During the 1930s and 1940s, the academy led massive campaigns to replace the many
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has never been used in any research paper or university document in any Western language, and the proposal to begin using it would create doubt and ambiguity about the name of the official language of Iran.
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loanwords whose immense use in Persian during the centuries preceding the foundation of the Pahlavi dynasty had created a literary language considerably different from the spoken Persian of the time.
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was a motivation behind Reza Shah's decision to remove the foreign loanwords from Persian, replacing them with Persian equivalents. In 1934, Reza Shah ordered to rebuild
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Changing the usage may also give the impression that "Farsi" is a dialect used in some parts of Iran rather than the predominant (and official) language of the country.
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On November 19, 2005, the Academy of the Persian Language and Literature delivered a pronouncement on the name of the Persian language, rejecting any use of the word
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The members of the academy included a number of notable literary figures and highly celebrated scholars upon its foundation, including
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The first official attentions to the necessity of protecting the Persian language against foreign words, and to the standardization of
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Supporting this announcement, gradually other institutions and literary figures separately took similar actions throughout the world.
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ordered the establishment of the first Persian association in 1903. This association officially declared that it used Persian and
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was appointed as the academy's president, and he remained in that position until his death in 2013. The current president is
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may give the impression that "Farsi" is a new language, although this may well be the intention of some users of
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The following is a list of both living and deceased permanent members of the academy since the 1979 Revolution.
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Announcement of the Academy about the name of the Persian language in foreign languages
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The first academy for the Persian language was founded on May 20, 1935, under the name
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A scientific association was founded in 1911, resulting in a dictionary called
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The Quarterly Journal of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature
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The Encyclopedia of Persian Language and Literature in South Asia (
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and set up a country-wide ceremony in honor of a thousand years of
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The Encyclopedia of Persian Language and Literature in South Asia
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Official regulatory institution of the Persian language
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Regulatory body
Persian language
Tehran
Iran
Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel
https://apll.ir/
Persian
regulatory body
Persian language
Tehran
Iran
Reza Shah
Pahlavi dynasty
languages of Iran
Persian orthography
Naser al-Din Shah
Qajar dynasty
Mozaffar al-Din Shah
Arabic
Reza Shah
Hekmat e Shirazi
Mohammad Ali Foroughi
Ferdowsi
Ferdowsi's tomb
Persian literature
Ferdowsi Millenary Celebration
Abbas Eqbal Ashtiani
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda

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