International Terminology Organisations

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1. International organizations

Here are links to international or terminology centres, information centres, research institutes, associations, cooperation bodies, language planning, and standardisation organisations, conferences.

 

2. Terminology activities related networks for a region or a language or a language group

This list contains organisations and associations whose activities are restricted to a certain geographical or a linguistic area. There are established cooperational activities in several levels and areas and thus the classification categories used here do not exclude each others.

Asia

  • EAFTerm – East Asia Forum on Terminology. [?? 9.12.2021 an]
  • MABBIM – Majlis Bahasa Indonesia-Malaysia-Brunei Darussalam – Indonesia-Malaysia-Brunei Darussalam Language Council [?? 9.12.2021 an]

Europe

  • Termcoord. Terminology Coordination Unit of the European Parliament. [ok 9.12.2021 an]
  • EAFT – European Association for Terminology [ok 9.12.2021 an]

German Speaking Countries

  • RaDT – Rat für Deutschsprachige Terminologie – Council for German Language Terminology
    [ok 9.12.2021 an]

Nordic Countries

  • Nordterm [ok 9.12.2021 an] (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden)

Romance Languages

  • AUF – Agence universitaire de la francophonie [ok 9.12.2021 an]
  • Cilf – Conseil international de la langue française [ok 9.12.2021 an]
  • Le Rint Organisation internationale de la Francophonie [ok 9.12.2021 an]
  • Realiter – Réseau panlatin de terminologie, a widespread network of lexicons with a special focus on Romance languages, dealing with the role of terminology in communication on a European and intercontinental level – Canadian French and South American Spanish and Portuguese [ok 9.12.2021 an]
  • RITerm – Réseau ibéro-américain de terminologie [ok 9.12.2021 an]
  • Union Latine – Terminologie et industries de la langue, une organisation internationale regroupant 36 états membres qui œuvre pour la diversité culturelle et le multilinguisme [?? 9.12.2021 an]. In Wikipedia.

Sami languages

  • Sámi Giellagáldu. One of the tasks is to standardise new terminology and written language for the Sami languages used in Finland, Norway and Sweden. Term base. [ok 9.12.2021 an]

3. Internet Information Centres, Portals etc.

 

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