Filipino Academy of Spanish Language
| Academia Filipina de la Lengua Española | |
| Abbreviation | AFLE |
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| Formation | July 25, 1924 |
| Headquarters | Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines |
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Region served
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Philippines |
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Official language
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Spanish |
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Director
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Emmanuel Luis A. Romanillos, OAR |
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Main organ
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Junta Directiva |
| Affiliations | Association of Spanish Language Academies |
The Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language (Spanish: Academia Filipina de la Lengua Española, abbreviated AFLE; Tagalog: Akademyang Pilipino ng Wikang Espanyol) is the language regulator for the Spanish language in the Philippines. It is one of two Spanish language regulators located in countries where the language does not have an official status nationwide, the other being the North American Academy of the Spanish Language in the United States.
A founding member of the Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE), the Academy was formerly headquartered in the Casino Español de Manila in Ermita before moving to its current headquarters in Makati.
The Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language was established in Manila on July 25, 1924. The eleventh Spanish language academy in the world to be founded, its establishment reflected the preeminent position of Spanish as a language in the Philippines at the time despite already-existing cultural influences coming from the United States.
In 2008, El País reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission revoked the Academy's corporate registration in 2003 due to its non-filing of annual returns. Despite this, the Academy nonetheless is recognized as possibly playing a key role again in revitalizing the Spanish language and promoting Spanish culture in the Philippines, a role that it also played in previous years.
Darío Villanueva, director of the Real Academia Española, visited the Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language in July 2017 as part of his official visit to the Philippines. During his visit, where he also presided over a meeting of the Academy's board of directors, he remarked that the Academy served as "the perennial lighthouse of the Spanish language" in the country.
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