The Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua ("Valencian Academy of the Language"), also known by the

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AVL, is an institution created on September 16, 1998, by the Valencian Parliament, which belongs to the set of official institutions that compose the

Generalitat Valenciana The Generalitat Valenciana is the generic name covering the different self-government institutions under which the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia is politically organized. It consists of seven institutions including the ''Corts Val ...

, according to the Act of Autonomy of the

Valencian Community The Valencian Community ( ca-valencia, Comunitat Valenciana, es, Comunidad Valenciana) is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid wi ...

. Its primary function is to determine and set the official standards for the Valencian language as used in the

( known in other territories as

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), and foster its use. According to its foundational law, the AVL linguistic regulations for Valencian must follow current Valencian genuine linguistic reality, respect Valencian lexicographic and literary tradition and start from the consolidated regulations based upon the

Normes de Castelló Normes de Castelló (, " Castelló's Norms"), also known as Normes del 32, are elementary orthographic guidelines that follow Pompeu Fabra's Catalan language norms for its Valencian variety. They were signed in 1932 in Castelló de la Plana by t ...

, a set of orthographic rules for Valencian signed in 1932. The headquarters of the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua are in

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. In addition this variety of the language follows the pattern of Pompeu Fabra standards who standardized the

Catalan language Catalan (; autonym: , ), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as '' Valencian'' (autonym: ), is a Western Romance language. It is the official language of Andorra, and an official language of three autonomous communities in eastern ...

in Catalonia. The AVL linguistic rule does not differ a great deal from the

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(Institute for Catalan Studies) standards. Nevertheless, AVL grammar (''Gramàtica normativa valenciana'') includes some specific features of Valencian

syntax In linguistics, syntax () is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure ( constituenc ...

, and its dictionary (''Diccionari normatiu valencià'') contains thousands of words which are specific for the Valencian variety, as well as Valencian specific verb conjugation and some

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which differ from the Catalan language in Catalonia.

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