Normes ortogràfiques
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| Author | Institut d'Estudis Catalans |
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| Language | Catalan |
Publication date | January 24, 1913 |
The Normes ortogràfiques are a list of 24 rules which were promulgated by the Institut d’Estudis Catalans on January 24, 1913, with the purpose of regularizing Catalan spelling.[1] They were made to establish a graphic codification for the Catalan language, which at the time did not have a system of unitary spelling.[2]
These rules formed the basis for the spelling of modern Catalan, until the publication in 2017 of Ortografia catalana. They were published near the end of January 1913, and endorsed by the press. They were fully reproduced in the article "For the unit of the language. The Orthographic Norms of the Institute of Catalan Studies[3]", published in La Veu de Catalunya on January 31, 1913 (p. 3-4).
The authors' aim was to push the language to be as modernized and modular as other European languages –i.e. making it usable for all literary genres and communication throughout science, administration, education, legislation, commerce, and the press.[4]
To establish this set of rules, the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (Institute of Catalan Studies) created a commission with members from all of its departments: Antoni Maria Alcover, Josep Carner i Ribalta, Frederic Clascar, Pompeu Fabra, Lluís Segalà i Estalella, Jaume Massó i Torrents, Miquel dels Sants Oliver, Antoni Rubió i Lluch, Pere Coromines i Montanya, and Eugenio d'Ors. Pompeu Fabra was in charge of preparing a proposal for the rules that was studied, debated, and voted on by the commission members. In creating these rules, they provided the Catalan language with the essential foundation for taking on subsequent codification efforts, a grammar (1918) and a dictionary (1932).