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Article: Spanish Language Authority
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- September 1, 2009
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In 1713, the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language was founded in Madrid with the objective of stopping Gallicisms and oilier corruptions threatening the Spanish language. The stated purpose was to "clean up, define, and give splendor" to Castillian Spanish.
Years later in 1726, the six volumes of the Diccioumio de autoridades appeared. They were the precursor to the famous Dûxnoemriô de la lengua española, the ultimate authority and reference point for the Spanish language. Over the last 250 years, Spanish language academies have been founded in all of the Spanish speaking countries. The Ai-St was the Colombian Academy, founded in 1871, and the last was the North American Academy of the ...