Language reform is a kind of language planning by widespread change to a language. The typical methods of language reform are simplification and linguistic...

For centuries, there have been movements to reform the spelling of the English language. Such spelling reform seeks to change English orthography so that...

The Turkish language reform (Turkish: Dil Devrimi), initiated on 12 July 1932, aimed to purge the Turkish language of Arabic and Persian-derived words...

Feminist language reform 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...

For centuries, many people have called for language reforms of English, which vary in approach from the radical (completely overhauling existing conventions)...

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...

of the Buryat language and the active introduction of Russian-language revolutionary Marxist terms into it began. During the next reform in 1936, there...

Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. Nigel Farage has been Leader of Reform UK and Richard Tice deputy leader since...

orthography has been reformed officially and unofficially by changing the Russian alphabet over the course of the history of the Russian language. Several important...

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...

Institute for Balkan Studies, 1993. Lewis, Geoffrey (2002). The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success. Oxford University Press. p. 57. Aytürk, İlker...

time can be attributed to the government-initiated language "reform" of the 20th century. This reform aimed at replacing foreign words used in Turkish,...

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...

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]...

language reform in order to eliminate illiteracy. Mao replied with support to the proposal in the same month. In October 1949, the Chinese Language Reform...

had formed the National Language Research Council to standardize a form of the Japanese language dubbed kokugo (国語). Reformers in the Qing bureaucracy...

prominent reasons for the alphabet reform is the belief that the Arabic script was not suitable for the Turkish language. The main argument was that the...

the most radical language reform activists were communists. There was significant debate among reformers on what steps to language reform should be taken...

is an Austronesian language, spoken natively in the island country of Nauru. Its relationship to the other Micronesian languages is not well understood...

particular, Knudsen's work on language reform in the mid-19th century was important for the 1907 orthography and a subsequent reform in 1917, so much so that...

language had become a mixture of purely Russian and Church Slavonic elements. The political reforms of Peter the Great were accompanied by a reform of...

Karadžić in the first half of the 19th century. The reform aimed to standardize the literary language based on vernacular speech, in accordance with the...

The National Languages Committee was established in 1919 by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China with the purpose of standardizing and popularizing...

Turkish). Retrieved 7 April 2025. Nafi Yalın. The Turkish language reform: a unique case of language planning in the world, Bilim dergisi 2002 Vol. 3 page...

(see also: English-language spelling reform). Taking language reform further, various proposed philosophical or auxiliary languages- such as aUI, Solresol...

as "seriously in danger" of disappearing in its Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. But on the contrary, Agostino Formica showed in 1999 that Gardiol...

The most prominent figure of Hungarian language reform was Ferenc Kazinczy, who helped make the Hungarian language a useful tool for scientific theorization;...

rate particularly difficult. In general, language reform was intended to make writing and the standard language easier to learn, which in turn would foster...