Academia Dominicana de la Lengua (variously translated as the Dominican Academy of Language, the Dominican Academy of the Language, the Dominican Academy of Letters, or glossed as the Dominican Academy of the Spanish Language; acronym ADL) is the Dominican Republic's correspondent academy of the Royal Spanish Academy. It was founded in Santo Domingo on 12 October 1927 and, like the other academies, has the principal function of working to regulate the Spanish language in the Dominican Republic.
It was created by the initiative of Archbishop Adolfo Alejandro Nouel. Currently, it has 29 members that are identified by the letters of the alphabet, from A to Z, and are considered members for life. It also counts with 30 correspondents.
Members
Academic members These are the members that belong to the academy for life. Their chairs are identified by the letters of the alphabet. +ChairHolderEntry year AJose Rafael Lantigua2006BAndrés L. MateoUnknownCRamon Emilio Reyes2002CHTony Raful2011DRicardo Miniño Gómez2003E2014FBruno Rosario Candelier1985GPedro Verges2021HRafael Gonzales TiradoUnknownICarlos Esteban DeiveUnknownJDennis R. Simó2007KFederico Henríquez Gratereaux1980LDiógenes CéspedesUnknownLLRafael Peralta Romero2017MIrene Pérez Guerra1993NMarcio Veloz MaggioloUnknownÑCardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez1989OOdalís Pérez NinaUnknownPManuel Matos Moquete2000QManuel Núñez Asencio2003RJosé Enrique García2007SAna Margarita Haché2008TJuan José Jimenes Sabater2007UGuillermo Piña-Contreras2007VFranklin Domínguez Hernández2008XJosé Miguel Soto Jiménez2011ZMaría José Rincón González2011ElectedJosé Alcántara Almánzar2010ElectedLeonel Fernández2010ElectedClaudio Cayo Espinal2018
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