#language academies

Now, I don't think it's likely. The various Jewish languages became so endangered due to the Shoah and the exodus of Mizrahi Jews from Muslim countries, around the 1940s. I mean, not all of them, but many dialects of Yiddish were killed in the Shoah, Ladino and Yevanic also suffered a big hit due to it, and Judeo-Arabic is nearly gone now with most of its speakers having moved to Israel or France. Yinglish exists, but I think it's still more of an English dialect than something into itself.

said Michael Edwards, who recently became part of the forty members of  l’Académie française, the 400-year old French Academy which exists as the authority on the French language and also protects the purity of its language.

I didn't even know language academies existed until I read this article. But there are - ten Academies of the Arabic Language, the oldest of which is in Damascus; the Academy of the Hebrew Language in Israel; the Centre for Greek Language in Thessaloniki; the Central Hindi Directorate ... I could go on. But this article is about the latest news from the French Academy!

Fascinatingly enough, the members of the French Academy are, quite loftily, called immortels - immortals. Michael Edwards, as the newest member, is an Englishman, and in the words of the article,

lives in Paris, teaches at the Collège de France, holds French citizenship as well as English, is married to a Frenchwoman—and is a published poet in French as well as English.

A francophile? Oh, yes. But an Englishman first. Worrying, but no worries - French shall remain pure, most likely with the help of the French Academy, in an heartening display of language purism (a fascinating topic I'll look into later), as