Genootschap Onze Taal is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 society dedicated to the Dutch language

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

. It was founded in 1931, initially to guard the language against what was seen as an invasion of germanisms

Germanism (linguistics)

A Germanism is a loan word or other loan element borrowed from German for use in some other language.- Linguistic domains :* The military or public administration...

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The society publishes a journal, Onze Taal, and a number of regularly appearing booklets on spelling, the most notable of which is the White Booklet

White Booklet

Het Witte Boekje is the popular name for the Spelling Guide of Our Language , a publication of the Genootschap Onze Taal. The first edition was released in October 1998; the latest edition is the tenth and was released in 2004...

. It also has an advisory service, the Taaladviesdienst.