Iš Valstybinės lietuvių kalbos komisijos veiklos

Activities of the State Lithuanian Language Commission 311 REVIEWS, INFORMATION Activities of the State Lithuanian Language Commission (According to the 2012 report of the Language Commission) The main objectives and tasks of the language commission are implemented through language programs. In 2012 the implementation of the State Language Standardization, Use, Education and Dissemination Programme 2006–2015, the Programme for Research on the Functioning and Change of the Lithuanian Common Language, Dialects and Other Language Variants 2011–2020 and the Programme for Legal and Administrative Supervision of the State Language were continued. Under the State Language Standardization, Use, Education and Dissemination Program 2006-2015, the dictionary World Placenames was published. Asia (Afghanistan–United Arab Emirates), electronic tool Pronunciation learning program. A practical pronunciation trainer (uAb „light“), a translation of the Grammar of the Lithuanian language (Grammatik der littauischen Sprache, 1876) by Friedrich Kuss, the creation of the dictionary World Placenames began. Europa online database. In 2012, 1258 Lithuanian publications of 28 titles were purchased and handed over free of charge to the public libraries of higher university schools, colleges, county, state and municipal libraries. continued to support the teaching of the specialty language in higher education institutions, scientific research projects, state language courses for foreign-speaking residents of Lithuania. The project also supported the preparation of the Lithuanian version of the daily news summary of Visaginas public television station “Russkaja volna” and the thematic pages of the magazine “Gimtoji kalba” (“Mother’s Language”) entitled “Lithuanian common language functioning and change. dissemination of language norms“ preparation and pub liking. 312 kALbOS kultŪRA | 86 According to the 2011-2020 Programme of Research on the Functional Development and Change of the Lithuanian Common Language, Dialects and Other Language Variants, research on the language, dialect lexicon and phonetic changes of European Union documents was completed in 2012. The development of the database of dialect records of the Department of Language History and Dialectology of the Institute of Lithuanian Language was completed. continued research on the language of emigrants and the pronunciation tendencies of young people, started research on the relationship of Lithuanian language syntax norms and recommendations with current usage. The draft amendments to the new version of the Law on the State Language of the Republic of Lithuania have been submitted to the Committee on Education, Science and Culture of the Seimas. The Seimas Committee on Law and Legal Order received the opinion on the draft law of the Republic of Lithuania “On the ratification of the European Council Decision 2011/199/EU of 25 March 2011 amending Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union as regards a stability mechanism for Member States whose currency is the euro”. The conclusion states that in Lithuanian language can be used only the noun euro, which can be changed according to the rules of Lithuanian language, it cannot have the non-Lithuanian name form euro, although such form is provided in the Treaty of European Union. The law adopted by the Seimas legalized a compromise variant – the form euro in parentheses next to the name of the currency euro. The draft Decree of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania “On the Amendment of Decree of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania No. 1407 of 12 November 2003 “On the Establishment of the Register of Legal Entities and the Approval of the Provisions of the Register of Legal Entities” was approved (Decree No. 1452 adopted on 5 December 2012). In accordance with item 761 of the amended Regulations of the Register of Legal Entities, the State Lithuanian Language Commission provides consultations to the Public Institution Registry Center on the conformity of the names of legal entities with the Lithuanian common language norms. The State Non-Food Products Inspection under the Ministry of Economy was contacted regarding the annex to the Recommendations on the Application of Labelling Minority in the Supervision of the Activities of Economic Entities, approved by the order of the Chief of the Inspection – the List of Minority Labelling Non-conformities, in which grammatical errors in product labels are classified as minor matters. Letters were also written to the State Food and Veterinary Service and the State Plant From the activities of the State Lithuanian Language Commission 313 service to the Ministry of Agriculture, which together with the State Non-Food Inspection signed a memorandum on the meaninglessness of labelling. The opinion of the language commission was taken into account, the provision on the classification of grammatical errors as minor matters was deleted from the list of minor marking discrepancies. REVITALIZATION OF THE TERMINal BANK OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA During the year, 1033 articles of approved terms used in legislative acts or submitted for use in their drafts were published in the Terms Bank of the Republic of Lithuania (http://terminai.vlkk.lt). In addition to the terms of the legislative acts, about 500 term articles from other sources were published: S. Maskeliūno Knowledge Technology Terms Dictionary (online edition), which was positively evaluated by the language commission, NATO Asset Tracking Terms Dictionary, which was submitted by the Ministry of National Defence, AAPė35 NATO Asset Tracking Terms Dictionary, by the protocol resolution No. PNi5 approved recommendations "On Lithuanian names of ornamental plants (A-b)". At the end of the year, the term bank comprised 206,088 term articles: 8,680 approved, 196,273 to be submitted, 1,135 not to be submitted. In 2012 there were 7 meetings of the language commission, 90 meetings of subcommissions. During the year, about 300 expert opinions were prepared on personal names, place names, names of institutions, interpretation of concepts, etc. Termination. At the meetings of the terminology subcommittee were discussed 1289 articles of legislation and their drafts, 6 drafts of new term dictionaries and 1 addition to the dictionaries, 4 drafts of term standards, guidelines for the composition of Lithuanian zoological nomenclature names were discussed. Two manuscripts of dictionaries have been considered, one of them – the dictionaries of the Lithuanian Presidency of the eS Council (terms, phrases of the Statute of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania) prepared by the Seimas Chancellery. 314 kALbOS kuLtūRA | 1033 term articles approved at 86 language commission meetings. these are the terms of legislation (drafts of legislation) in areas supervised by state institutions (finance, public security, culture, law, economy, transport, education and science, communications, agriculture, fisheries and food, energy, environment, health, pharmaceuticals, defence, etc.). Adopted the protocol resolution of the language commission No. PNi5 "On the Recommendation "On Lithuanian names of ornamental plants (A-b)" (605 names). In accordance with the Decision of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania No. 998 of 7 July 2010 “On the harmonization of terms of draft European Union legislative acts in Lithuanian language” (Journal of Laws, 2010, No. 84a4417), the harmonization of terms of draft European Union legislative acts in Lithuanian language submitted by European Union institutions with Lithuanian state institutions was coordinated on the one-stop-shop principle. Observations and recommendations on the composition and spelling of the names of electoral districts have been submitted to the Supreme Electoral Commission. almost 600 consultations on terminology and foreign words exchange were provided by e-mail and telephone. consult translators, editors, terminologists of European Union institutions, as well as civil servants of Lithuanian institutions, employees of private institutions, other interested parties. Personnages et personnages. Two resolutions and two protocol resolutions (recommendations) were adopted on the names of states, their capitals, inhabitants, as well as on the names of administrative regions of Georgia, a protocol resolution on the composition and spelling of the names of villages. The subcommittee of the nomenclature considered the dictionary World Placenames prepared on behalf of the language commission. Asia Part II problematic issues. Lexicon. The dictionary subcommittee considered the manuscript of the revised and supplemented edition of the Language Advice Booklet Leksika: Borrowing Use and submitted it to the language commission for review. The subcommittee decided to propose to the language commission to delete from the list of major language errors of the Dictionary the non-presentable foreign words and their derivatives, as well as the non-useable new foreign words, and to establish and disseminate lexical norms by the language commission’s recommendations. The list of foreign-language equivalents was supplemented by 49 words by protocol decision. Grammar, spelling and punctuation. At the meeting of the Grammar Subcommittee, the names of the parliaments of the European Union Member States were discussed on the proposal of the Seimas Chancellery. At the meetings of the Temporary Subcommittee on the Translation Manual, the Writing Section of the Translation Manual for the Institutions of the European Union, template phrases and problematic issues were discussed. 315 Evaluation of Textbooks from the Activities of the State Lithuanian Language Commission. The textbook evaluation subcommittee considered 42 manuscripts of general education textbooks, a total of 60 books (some textbooks in several parts). 36 books were immediately awarded a mark confirming the correctness of the language, the other books were returned to the publishers for correction. In 2012 there were no textbooks rejected altogether (which would not meet the correctness requirements for the third time), the language of textbooks submitted to the language committee for evaluation has improved considerably. KITAI WORKS About 36,400 language consultations were provided in 2012, of which 13,100 online and 23,300 by telephone. The language consultation bank was supplemented with 848 new entries in 2012 (now containing over 10,000 headings). At the beginning of the year, the website vardai.vlkk.lt was opened to the public. It provides recommendations on the normativity of names of Lithuanian citizens (83 thousand names have been published, of which 4691 single names have been described), publishes scientific articles and references to media articles on the subject of personal names, provides a list of legislation regulating the use of personal names, interesting statistics. A new language technology subcommittee was formed at the language commission meeting. It will coordinate the implementation of the Lithuanian language in information technologies, prepare a Lithuanian language technology strategy and provide measures to promote the development of the Lithuanian language in digital media. Based on the letter of the Lithuanian Computerists Union, together with the State Language Inspection, the Communications Regulatory Service of the Republic of Lithuania and the mobile service companies were contacted. It states their obligation to ensure that short messages (SMS) sent to service recipients in Lithuanian territory are prepared and sent in Lithuanian alphabet. The language inspectorate was asked to check the spelling of personal names on debit and credit cards of all banks operating in Lithuania and to ensure that the names and surnames of Lithuanian citizens are written in Lithuanian letters. On 12 December 2012, at the request of the language commission, the results of the Lithuanian language test and the deteriorating literacy status of pupils were discussed in the Committee on Education, Science and Culture of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. Committee 316 kALbOS kuLtūRA | 86 commissioned the Ministry of Education and Science to prepare proposals on how to improve the literacy of pupils. All Lithuanian university and non-university higher education institutions were asked to provide information on the teaching of the specialty language, the examination of students’ general knowledge of Lithuanian language and the evaluation of the correctness of the final theses. The information received was discussed at the meeting of the language commission and it was decided to initiate the review of the descriptions of the specialty language subjects and the analysis of the correctness of the final theses. A number of conferences, meetings and other events were organized together with other institutions, including the conference “Languages, Culture and Globalization” held in the Seimas on 4 June, the second conference of the Terminology Forum of the European Union and the Republic of Lithuania institutions and bodies on 8 June (together with the Lithuanian Language Department of the Directorate General for Translation of the European Commission and the Seimas Chancellery of the Republic of Lithuania), the fifth national competition “Clean Language – Clean Head”, in which more than 8,500 students from grades 6-10 from all over Lithuania tested their knowledge of Lithuanian language using information technologies. Received 26 November 2013 JūRAtė PALIONytė State Lithuanian Language Commission Gedimino pr. 60, Lt01110 Vilnius [email protected]t