Editing Academy of the Hebrew Language (section)

==History<!--'Hebrew Language Committee' redirects here-->==
[[Image:Academy of the Hebrew Language.JPG|right|thumb|350px|The Academy of the Hebrew Language building at the [[Hebrew University]] Givat Ram campus]]
The Academy replaced the '''Hebrew Language Committee'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> (''Vaʻad ha-lashon ha-ʻIvrit'') established in 1890 by [[Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]], who was its first president. As Hebrew became the spoken language in Palestine and was adopted by the [[Education in Israel|educational system]], the Hebrew Language Committee published bulletins and dictionaries. It coined thousands of words that are in everyday use today.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hZqpCrG3qw0C&pg=PA504 ''The New Jewish Encyclopedia'', ed. David Bridger]</ref>

Its successor, the Academy of the Hebrew Language, has continued this mission of creating new [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] words to keep up modern usage.

Although the academy's business is creating new words from Hebrew roots and structures to replace loanwords derived from other languages, its own name is a loanword, "akademya."<ref name="Hebrew Academy">{{Cite web |url=http://en.hebrew-academy.org.il/ |title=Hebrew Academy |access-date=2018-03-09 |archive-date=2018-05-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516084203/http://en.hebrew-academy.org.il/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It addresses this irony on its English website.<ref>[http://en.hebrew-academy.org.il/birth-of-a-word/when-should-foreign-words-be-replaced-by-hebrew-words/ When Should Foreign Words Be Replaced By Hebrew Words?]</ref>

The Academy's mission, as defined in its constitution, is "to direct the development of Hebrew in light of its nature" ({{lang|he|rtl=yes|לכוון את דרכי התפתחותה של הלשון העברית לפי טבעה}}).<ref>[[Ghil'ad Zuckermann]] argues that this is an "oxymoronic" mission impossible: "If the '''nature''' of a language is to evolve in a specific direction, why '''direct''' it by language policing?", see Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2008), [http://www.zuckermann.org/pdf/Realistic_Prescriptivism_Academy.pdf Realistic Prescriptivism: The Academy of the Hebrew Language, its Campaign of "Good Grammar" and Lexpionage, and the Native Israeli Speakers]. ''Israel Studies in Language and Society'' 1, pp. 135–154.</ref> The Academy sets standards for modern Hebrew grammar, orthography, transliteration, and punctuation based on the historical development of the language. It also writes a Hebrew Historical Dictionary.<ref>According to Zuckermann, "the Historical Dictionary Project is the Academy's most important contribution", see Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2008), [http://www.zuckermann.org/pdf/Realistic_Prescriptivism_Academy.pdf Realistic Prescriptivism: The Academy of the Hebrew Language, its Campaign of "Good Grammar" and Lexpionage, and the Native Israeli Speakers]. ''Israel Studies in Language and Society'' 1, pp. 135–154.</ref>