Iš Valstybinės lietuvių kalbos komisijos veiklos

342 Languages Culture | 83 reviews, reviews, information from the state Lithuanian Activities of the Language Commission (based on the 2009 report of the Language Commission) The main objectives and tasks of the Language Commission are implemented through the implementation of language programs approved by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. In 2009, three language programmes were continued: the “Legal and Administrative Supervision of the State Language”, the Programme for the Preservation of Dialects and Ethnic Place Names 2001–2010 and the Programme for the Standardization, Use, Education and Dissemination of the State Language 2006–2015. The staff of the Language Commission actively participated in the preparation of the amendment to Article 135 of the Statute of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, which is very important for the quality of the terms used in legislative acts. This article includes a provision that the explanatory note submitted to the Seimas together with each draft law must state whether the draft law has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the State Language Act, the Act on the Procedure for the Preparation of Laws and Other Legislative and Regulatory Acts and complies with the norms of the common Lithuanian language, and whether the concepts of the draft law and the terms naming them have been assessed in accordance with the procedure established by the Terms Bank Act and its implementing legislation. Comments and proposals were submitted to various institutions on 10 draft laws and other legislative acts. The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania has expressed concern about the quality of the language of teachers and proposed to include additions to the regulations on the attestation of teachers and specialists in helping students, which would help to ensure that teachers of various subjects use correct language. The proposal of the Ministry of Education and Science on integrated subject and foreign language teaching in secondary and primary education programs was considered. In the Commission's view, integrated teaching in primary school would be premature, since pupils' subject knowledge (especially vocabulary) in their mother tongue is not yet formed at that time. The opinion of the Language Commission on the problems of the use of the state language in educational institutions of Vilnius County municipalities was submitted to the Seimas Committee on Education, Science and Culture. emphasized that first of all the state educational policy should be adjusted with regard to schools in which Lithuanian is not the language of instruction. Implementation of the Law on the Term Bank of the Republic of Lithuania further completed and managed the term bank of the Republic of Lithuania. In 2009, it published over 1000 terms from legislative acts, as well as 13 000 terms taken from glossaries and other sources (an additional 10 000 terms from glossaries were added to the intermediate database of the bank). at the end of the year there were 145 395 terms in the term bank, of which: 5171 approved terms, 139 116 to be offered, 1108 not to be offered. On 1 April 2009, at a joint meeting of the Seimas Committee on European Affairs and the Committee on Education, Science and Culture, a decision was adopted to ensure the cooperation of Lithuanian experts and translators, terminologists and editors of the institutions under the one-stop-shop principle. The State Lithuanian Language Commission, as a coordinating body, is tasked with coordinating the opinions of experts and linguists-terminologists from the terminology commissions of Lithuanian state institutions and/or research and study institutions and submitting final decisions on terms to the translation units of the institutions. normative and expert activities In 2009 there were 6 meetings of the Language Commission. 79 meetings of subcommissions were held: terminology subcommissions – 41, vocabulary – 18, textbooks – 15, spelling, punctuation and grammar – 2, pronunciation and spelling – 1, joint 344 Languages Culture | 83 spelling and vocabulary – 1, dictionary – 1, language program branch for teachers – 1. About 150 expert opinions on personal names, place names, terms and concepts, names of companies, institutions and organizations, language of documents, etc., have been prepared for various institutions and individuals. Termination. At the meetings of the Language Commission, 4 terminology dictionaries were discussed and positively evaluated, 9 terminology standards were approved, over 1000 legislative terms were approved. The terminology subcommittee considered 1224 term articles of 39 draft legislative acts and 12 inventoried legislative acts, which were submitted to the term bank by the terminology commissions of 17 state institutions. also considered dictionaries of terms (5), Lithuanian standards of terms (8), names of poisonous plants (120), names of crustacean nomenclature (118), the list of terms of the publication “Basic principles of professional driving practice”, the list of cosmetics lexicon provided by the Lithuanian association of cosmetics and household chemicals manufacturers “likochema”. a recommendation “on Lithuanian names of medicinal plants” was prepared and approved by the State Lithuanian Language Commission in a protocol decision dated 9 April 20091. also prepared a recommendation of Lithuanian names of honey-bearing plants, prepared recommendations of Lithuanian names of fodder plants and Lithuanian names of ornamental plants, a book of Lithuanian names of plants used for technical purposes. About 600 consultations on terminology, foreign word replacement, translation were provided by e-mail and telephone. mainly consulted translators of the European Union institutions, editors, Lithuanian national experts, as well as Lithuanian civil servants, employees of private institutions, other interested parties. Personnages et personnages. adopted a resolution of the Lithuanian language commission on the change of names of states2 and a resolution on the change of names of capitals of states3. The subcommittee on the register of names of Lithuanian citizens continued to discuss the material of the register of names of Lithuanian citizens: names of Baltic origin, which are not in Kazimieras Kuzavinis and Bronius Savkyns’s Lithuanian Names Origin Dictionary, 1 Informational Notices, 2009, no. 30aj409. 2 Valstybės žinios, 2009, no. 21i845. 3 Valstybės žinios, 2009, no. 21a846. from the activities of the state Lithuanian language commission 345 form, pronunciation, construction, spelling, normativity. also discussed in the dictionary World Placenames 3-volume Africa. Antarctica. Australia. Oceania reviews and final text, 4th volume Asia part 1 texts and some Asian language adaptation rules. At the request of the editors of the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities (opoce), comments have been submitted on the appendix to the Translation Manual for the Institutions of the European Union containing the names of states, provinces, capitals, populations, currencies and descriptors. More than 80 conclusions on the correctness of residential areas, water names, street names were submitted to municipalities (848 names were evaluated). The list of place names of the Trakai Lake prepared by the Thrace National Historical Park Directorate has been considered. The language commission advises the public and the registry offices on the correctness of personal names. In 2009, more than 30 certificates of identity of personal names were submitted to various institutions and individuals. Grammar, spelling and punctuation. The working group established last year to review the spelling rules of the Lithuanian language continued its activities: draft rules on the formation, writing and use of abbreviations, abbreviations and symbols, capitalization were prepared, several new cases of formal spelling were discussed. Spelling. On 26 November 2009, a protocol resolution approved a recommendation "on the spelling of female surnames with the ending ė, which do not indicate marital status". The pronunciation of 2952 botanical names (recommendation lists of medicinal and honey-producing plants) was checked, as well as the pronunciation of dictionaries of terms assessed by the Language Commission. Lexicon. The Recommendation ‘on the names of the inhabitants of the estates and regions’ was approved by a protocol resolution of 14 May 20094. Evaluation of textbooks. by the decision of the State Lithuanian Language Commission5 some provisions of the description of the procedure for assessing the correctness of the language in textbooks for general education subjects and vocational training were clarified. The textbook evaluation subcommittee considered 66 textbooks for general education (some textbooks consist of several parts; a total of 106 textbook manuscripts were considered). 1996. pp. 34. "Informational notices, 2009, no. 39(1)i534". 5 Valstybės žinios, 2009, no. 82a3438. 80 books were given, 26 books were returned to publishers for correction (10 books were returned twice). There were no textbooks completely rejected (which were not in compliance for the third time) in 2009. The textbook evaluation subcommittee discussed and approved the general overview of textbook manuscripts prepared by Rita Urnėžiūtė, which is published on the Language Commission website. The protocol resolution of 9 April6 approved the language program for specialty studies of teachers, which is recommended to all higher education institutions preparing future teachers. The Department of Legal Institutions of the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Migration of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Lithuania have proposed ways to solve the difficulties caused to citizens and foreigners due to different procedures for transliteration of names and surnames applied in different periods. Microsoft Lithuania was contacted and asked to refute the opinion that Microsoft forbids the installation of national products in its products, including the original computer font “palemono” created on behalf of the Language Commission. received the answer that microsoft not only does not forbid installing palemon, but even created a tutorial video on how to do it. about 35 000 language consultations were provided, of which over 13 000 were online and about 22 000 by telephone. In 2009, the database of language consultation bank was supplemented with more than 900 new entries (now it contains over 8700 heading words). from the state language standardization, use, education and dissemination 2006-2015 program supported the preparation of the Lithuanian language summary of every working day news of visaginas city public television “russkaja volna”, the creation of the informational educational lnK television program “word – not a sparrow”, the creation of educational and training radio station “laisvoji banga” programs “word on my lips”. financed the preparation, publication and distribution of the thematic pages of the magazine Gimtoji kalba “State language norms dissemination”. The Language Commission together with the company “tilde it”, the Ministry of Education and Science and the public relations agency “Strategic Communications Centre” 6 Informational announcements, 2009, no. 31a433. 347 organized a competition for Lithuanian general education school pupils in grades 7-9 “Clean language – clean head”. The aim of the competition, which has been organized online for the second year and has received great interest, is to encourage students to use Lithuanian characters and correct Lithuanian language in electronic media. The Language Commission assisted the weekly newspaper Atgimimas, which organized the 4th national dictation contest, as a partner and sponsor. On April 23, 2009, the Office of the Inspector of Journalists’ Ethics, Mykolas Romeris University and the State Lithuanian Language Commission organized the forum “Lithuanian language online: challenges, opportunities, prospects”. The forum’s reports and discussions discussed how to establish the Lithuanian language in the Internet space, when there are almost no technical obstacles to using Lithuanian characters in texts of websites and blogs, as well as in e-mail messages. On October 1-2, 2009 in Vilnius took place the XIIII seminar of the Baltic Division of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (ungegn). organizers – the State Lithuanian Language Commission and the National Land Service. received 2010 11 12 jūratė palionytė state Lithuanian language commission žvejų g. 14a, lted09310 vilnius [email protected]