Academia Mexicana de la Lengua

Mexican Academy of the Language
Academia Mexicana de la Lengua
AbbreviationAML
Formation1854
HeadquartersMexico City, Mexico
Region served
Mexico
Official language
Spanish
Director
Dr. Jaime Mario Labastida Ochoa
Main organ
Mesa Directiva
AffiliationsAssociation of Spanish Language Academies
Websitewww.academia.org.mx

The Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (variously translated as the Mexican Academy of Language, the Mexican Academy of the Language, the Mexican Academy of Letters, or glossed as the Mexican Academy of the Spanish Language; acronym AML) is the correspondent academy in Mexico of the Royal Spanish Academy. It was founded in Mexico City on 11 September 1875 and, like the other academies, has the principal function of working to ensure the purity of the Spanish language. Academy members have included many of the leading figures in Mexican letters, including philologists, grammarians, philosophers, novelists, poets, historians and humanists.

The Academia Mexicana organized the first Congress of the Spanish Language Academies that was celebrated at Mexico City in April 1951. This gave birth, through its Permanent Commission, to the Association of Spanish Language Academies, confirmed in the second Congress, celebrated in Madrid five years later.