The Language Committee is a body under the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sports of the Republic of Armenia. The Committee is entrusted to develop state policy in the field of language, safeguard the implementation of that policy, and fulfil the requirements of the RA Law “On Language”.
The goals of the Language Committee are:
1) Protection of the interests of the state language of the Republic of Armenia, elaboration of a unified state policy in the field of language, and ensuring the implementation of that policy,
2) Ensuring the functioning of Armenian as a state language in every sphere of life of the Republic.
The objectives of the Language Committee are:
1) Ensuring the fulfilment of the requirements of the RA Law “On Language”, laws regulating the use of the Armenian language, other legal acts as well as the state program of the language policy of the Republic of Armenia,
2) Contributing to the development of the principles of word formation, terminology, orthography, transcription, and punctuation as well as to the unification of the orthography of the official language of the Republic of Armenia – modern literary Armenian,
3) Contributing to the preservation and dissemination of the Armenian language among the Armenians residing outside the borders of the Republic of Armenia,
4) Ensuring the free use of the languages of national minorities in the territory of the Republic of Armenia,
5) Improving the legislation regulating the language sector based on language study, analysis, and assessment.
The Language Committee was established as the State Language Inspectorate under the Government of the Republic of Armenia by decision of the RA Government № 531, on October 19, 1993.
In 2002, the State Language Inspectorate under the Government of the Republic of Armenia was reorganized into a separate subdivision of the RA Ministry of Education and Science, with the a status of a republican body of executive power.
According to the RA Law on “Public Administration Bodies”, the Language Inspectorate has been operating as a Language Committee since April 9, 2018.
The Committee has two departments (Language Supervision, Administrative Offenses) and nineteen employees.
You can check out the charter of the RA Language Committee here.
