New grammar book launched to ‘unify’ the Spanish language
Friday, 11th December 2009
According to an article published on the BBC website today, a new grammar book that draws up joint rules for the Spanish language - now spoken in more than 20 nations - has been launched.
The book, which it took 11 years to compile, consists of two volumes covering some 4,000 pages. It was produced by the Royal Language Academy of Spain (RAE), and replaces the Academy’s own 1931 grammar, which is, these days, deemed to be ‘out of touch’ with the way Spanish is spoken in Latin American countries.
The new guidelines are described as ‘not set cut-and-dried dogma on what is correct and what is not’, and are instead said simply to offer recommendations on what linguists generally accept to be proper Spanish.
As it’s pointed out in the article, the various varieties of Spanish that exist around the world today are full of differences in grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary. Until now however, the only grammar rules to have been acknowledged are those pertinent to the Spanish spoken in Spain.
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