Council for Standard Croatian Language Norm

Council for Standard Croatian Language Norm is a linguistic council established for the purpose of providing orthographical

Orthography

The orthography of a language specifies a standardized way of using a specific writing system to write the language. Where more than one writing system is used for a language, for example Kurdish, Uyghur, Serbian or Inuktitut, there can be more than one orthography...

and orthoepical

Orthoepy

Orthoepy means the doctrine of correct pronunciation within a specific oral tradition. The term is from the Greek ὀρθοέπεια, from ὀρθός orthos "correct" and ἔπος epos "speech." The antonym is cacoepy "bad or wrong pronunciation"...

norm for the Croatian standard language

Standard language

A standard language is a language variety used by a group of people in their public discourse. Alternatively, varieties become standard by undergoing a process of standardization, during which it is organized for description in grammars and dictionaries and encoded in such reference works...

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It has been appointed by Dragan Primorac

Dragan Primorac

Dragan Primorac is a university professor, pediatrician, geneticist and forensic science expert who became a politician as a member of Croatian Government, serving as the Minister of Science, Education and Sports between 2003 and 2009. He completed his first term without any party affiliation...

, the Minister of Science Education and Sports at the April 14th 2005, with academic Radoslav Katičić

Radoslav Katicic

Radoslav Katičić is a Croatian linguist, classical philologist, Indo-Europeanist, Slavist and Indologist, one of the most prominent Croatian scholars in the field of humanities.-Biography:...

as its head. According to the appointing document, the purpose of the Council is:

to provide systematic professional care of Croatian standard language
to discuss current issues and open questions of Croatian standard language
to point out examples of ignoring constitutional decree of Croatian as an official language
to promote the culture of Croatian standard language in written and spoken communication
to take care on place and role of Croatian standard language with respect to the process of integration of the Republic of Croatia into the European Union
to bring solutions regarding the further norming of the Croatian standard language
to monitor general language issues and set out principles in orthographical norm

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