Back إصلاح اللغة Arabic Ператварэньне мовы BE-X-OLD Sprachreform German Language reform English Lingva reformo Esperanto Reforma lingüística Spanish Hizkuntza erreforma Basque Kielireformi Finnish רפורמה בשפה HE Nyelvújítás Hungarian
Language reform is a type of language planning. Language reforms make big changes to a language. These changes are usually done to make a language simpler to understand or to write. Sometimes changes are done to make the language purer; that is, to get rid of foreign parts of the language, or to get rid of parts of the language that are not grammatical.
Simplification makes the language easier to use. It tries to regularise spelling, vocabulary, and grammar. Purification makes the language similar to a version of the language that people think is more pure.
Sometimes language reforms were done to unite the people speaking the language. For this reason, many language reforms happened in 19th century Europe when there was a rise of nationalist movements.