The Royal Spanish Academy, also known by its acronym RAE, is one of the 23 academies that make up the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, located in each of the countries where the Spanish language is spoken, and which are in charge of the corresponding linguistic normalization. This important institution of the language was created in 1713 by the enlightened Juan Manuel Fernández, with its headquarters in Madrid, Spain. The main activity of this is related to the issuance of certain norms on the standardized use of the Spanish language, so that it has general rules in most of the aspects that make it up.
Towards the year 1711, France, Portugal and Italy were among the countries that had dictionaries, books in which they collected information on the terms that made up their own languages, in addition to establishing rules on the use of these. Spain, in view of this, decided to get to work and make its own dictionary; that of the Spanish language. Juan Manuel Fernández, a man with different royal titles, is the man who took the earliest initiative for the development of the institution, taking as a reference the Italian Accademia della Crusca and the French Academy. After the first sessions, held in the house of the Marqués de Villena, Felipe V, the then king, decided to take it under his wing.shelter.
Over the years, its influence was consolidated, until it was considered the highest authority in terms of linguistic norms. This has been achieved with the publication and periodic edition of the DRAE, or Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy, where the definitions of a large number of terms and some of the most important rules of the language are collected, in addition to La grammar, a book in which specifies a series of rules for the writing and classification of words. It should be noted that the RAE, after the independence of the Spanish-American countries, urged the creation of various national academies, thus forming the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language.
