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Linguistic purism

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linguistic purism
opposition to foreign influence on a language
language revitalization
effort to promote an endangered language or revive a dead language
Katharevousa
thumb | right | Adamantios Korais, the conceiver of Katharevousa
linguistic purism in English
efforts at retaining Germanic influences in the English language
linguistic prescription
attempt to lay down norms defining preferred or "correct" use of language
plain language
writing designed to ensure the reader understands as quickly, easily, and completely as possible
Høgnorsk
Høgnorsk (; meaning High Norwegian) is a term for varieties of the Norwegian language from Nynorsk that reject most of the official reforms that have been introduced since the creation of . Høgnorsk typically accepts the initial reforms that, among other things, removed certain silent letters of etymological origin, while keeping most of the grammar intact.
KyivNotKiev
right|thumb|250x250px|Campaign logo KyivNotKiev is an online campaign to persuade English-language media and organizations exclusively to use Kyiv (derived from the Ukrainian-language ) instead of Kiev (derived from the Russian-language ) as the name of the Ukrainian capital. It was started on 2 October 2018 by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and StratCom Ukraine, and it is run by the MFA's Department of Public Diplomacy.
Appendix Probi
list of erroneous Latin word appended to the "Ars Minor" compiled by the Roman grammarian Marcus Valerius Probus of Beirut, demonstrating some differences between Classical and Vulgar Latin
Greek language question
19th and 20th century dispute in Greece about whether the popular language (Demotic) or a cultivated imitation of Ancient Greek (katharevousa) should be official; settled in favour of the former
language ideology
concept of language having or being influenced by ideology
Declaration on the Common Language
statement that Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin are four varieties of a single pluricentric language
Norwegian language conflict
ongoing controversy between Bokmål and Nynorsk and other varieties of the Norwegian language
linguistic purism in Icelandic
phono-semantic matching
linguistic borrowing in which the sound and meaning of a foreign word are adjusted to match existing phonetic and semantic elements in the target language
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe
painter and printmaker (1759-1835)
Animal name changes in Turkey
Taxonomic policy of government of Turkey
Gospel Riots
christian riots in Greece in 1901
list of replaced loanwords in Turkish
Wikimedia list article
bilingual pun
English language words
sadhu bhasha
historical language style that was used in 19th and 20th century Bangla literary works
spelling pronunciation
pronunciation of a word according to its spelling
Tanittamil Iyakkam
20th-century Tamil linguistic-purity movement
Lovers of the Russian Word
literary society in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire between 1811 and 1816