Current headquarters atOviedoVictor speaking Asturian.
TheAcademia de la Llingua Asturiana orAcademy of the Asturian Language (ALLA) is an Official Institution[1] of the Government of thePrincipality of Asturias that promotes and regulates theAsturian language, a language of theSpanishautonomous community ofAsturias. Among its principal objectives are investigating and normalising the Asturian Language, developing a dictionary, promoting its use and education and awarding literary prizes. It has 21 full members, 19 foreign members and 15 honorary members, and its current (as of 2017) president isXosé Antón González Riaño.[2]
ALLA first notice appears in the 18th century, whenGaspar Melchor de Jovellanos andCarlos González de Posada talk in their letters about the idea of creating it in 1791. Jovellanos' project, however, was aborted because of his imprisonment inMajorca.
In 1920s the Real Academia Asturiana de las Artes y las Letras (Royal Academy of Asturian Arts and Letters) was created by some intellectuals, including José Antonio García Peláez (Pin de Pría). It was divided in four sections and its principal objectives were to create an Asturian dictionary and grammar and to publish a magazine. Other sections were dedicated to promoting Asturian literature, theatre and music.
But it was from 1980 when the Asturian pre-autonomous government, the Consejo Regional, approved the creation of theALLA, founded 15 December of the same year.Xosé Lluis García Arias was its first president from that moment until 2001 whenAna Cano took over from him.
In 1981 theNormes Ortográfiques y Conxugación de Verbos (Orthographic Norms and Verb Conjugation), the first academic work, was published. Other publications followed, such as theGramática de la Llingua Asturiana (Asturian Language Grammar) in 1998 and theDiccionariu de la Llingua Asturiana (Asturian Language Dictionary) in 2000, also known as «DALLA».
^Official Decret of Asturian Regional Council 33/1980 15 December, and approved by Decret 9/1981, modified 12 April 1995 (BOPA number 136 of 14.6.1995)[1].
^Lletres Asturianes n. 117, in "Notes y anuncies", Uviéu, 2017; ISSN 0212-0534.[2]
^(Asturian) Academy of the Asturian Language website[3] (Law 1/98 of use and promotion of Asturian language)
