INSTITUTE OF NATIONAL LANGUAGE

Welcome to INL, Royal Academy of Cambodia
The Institute of National Language (INL) was established in 1998. The INL is the public administrative institution, which has independent administration and finance, but is under the control of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. In 1999, the INL was integrated into the Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC). The INL has five objectives. The first is to conduct research on Mon-Khmer study from the ancient period up to the present time, to do research on the masterpieces and to preserve the Khmer language and literature to be published. The second is to collect and prepare the vocabulary to technical scientific terms on the basis of international vocabulary. The third is to prepare and publish lexicons, the dictionaries—Khmer dictionary, Khmer Encyclopedia, dictionary of poli-technical terms, Khmer-English dictionary, Khmer-French dictionary and vice versa, and to translate and publish scientific documents, language, culture and to release the scientific information. The fourth is coordinate between ministries, and local and international institutions to develop and control the usage of Khmer language and to conduct training courses related to Khmer language and literature with specialized institutions at the local and international level. And the fifth is to promote the Khmer language both learning and teaching among international scholars who are interested in the Khmer language as the second language or the language for research.