Language reform is a kind of language planning by widespread change to a language. The typical methods of language reform are simplification and linguistic purism. Simplification regularises vocabulary, grammar, or spelling. Purism aligns the language with a form which is deemed 'purer'.
Language reforms are intentional changes to language; this article does not cover natural language change, such as the Great Vowel Shift.
Languagereform is a kind of language planning by widespread change to a language. The typical methods of languagereform are simplification and linguistic...
The Turkish languagereform (Turkish: Dil Devrimi), initiated on 12 July 1932, aimed to purge the Turkish language of Arabic and Persian-origin words and...
Feminist languagereform or feminist language planning refers to the effort, often of political and grassroots movements, to change how language is used...
and over the years, many languages have undergone such reforms. Recent high-profile examples are the German orthography reform of 1996 and the on-off Portuguese...
people have called for languagereform of the English language. Various types of reforms have been proposed. Spelling reforms are attempts to regularise...
and Arabic origin loanwords in the language with their Turkish equivalents. One of the main supporters of the reform was the Turkish nationalist Ziya Gökalp...
administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's reforms in the early years of...
without substantially changing the rules familiar to users of the language. The reform was based on an international agreement signed in Vienna in July...
Turkish language of Arabic and Persian loanwords, often replacing them with revived early Turkic words. However, the same reform also rid the language of many...
languages of the Roman Empire, but other languages were regionally important. Latin was the original language of the Romans and remained the language...
of the Buryat language and the active introduction of Russian-language revolutionary Marxist terms into it began. During the next reform in 1936, there...
of Hungarian languagereform", vol. 1–2: 1902 and 1908), without aiming to be comprehensive. A nyelv és a nyelvek ("Language and languages"), edited by...
time can be attributed to the government-initiated language "reform" of the 20th century. This reform aimed at replacing foreign words used in Turkish,...
Reform Judaism, also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism, is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of Judaism, the...
(see also: English-language spelling reform). Taking languagereform further, various proposed philosophical or auxiliary languages- such as aUI, Solresol...
Stalin's orders by Cyrillic script in 1941. As a result of the pending languagereform in neighboring Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan will be the only independent...
rate particularly difficult. In general, languagereform was intended to make writing and the standard language easier to learn, which in turn would foster...
had formed the National Language Research Council to standardize a form of the Japanese language dubbed kokugo (国語). Reformers in the Qing bureaucracy...
is an Austronesian language, spoken natively in the island country of Nauru. Its relationship to the other Micronesian languages is not well understood...
April 2024 at the Wayback Machine István Fodor, Claude Hagège (1983). LanguageReform: History and Future. Vol. 1. Buske. p. 324. ISBN 978-3-87118-572-4...
Soviet Dungan Script for Chinese LanguageReform". Sino-Platonic Papers (18). DIETRICH, Ayşe. "SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET LANGUAGE POLICIES IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN...
the local affiliate of Reform UK, it is a separate entity. The party has faced criticism regarding its inflammatory language, and misleading statements...
Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Catherine Blaiklock with support from Nigel Farage in November...
Institute for Balkan Studies, 1993. Lewis, Geoffrey (2002). The Turkish LanguageReform: A Catastrophic Success. Oxford University Press. p. 57. Aytürk, İlker...
system, where it was mandatory for schoolchildren to learn all three languages. The reform was strongly opposed by both the faction of Latvian national communists [lv]...
The Armenian orthography reform occurred between 1922 and 1924 in Soviet Armenia and was partially reviewed in 1940. Its main features were neutralization...