The RAE incorporates the pronoun "elle" in its observatory of words

Inclusive language makes its way into the RAE's word observatory

GAYLES.TV.- Languages are alive and mutating. They are not something static and immovable, they have to adapt to new realities. The use of inclusive language has drawn the attention of Observatory of words full Royal Spanish Academy (RAE). Historically, this institution had been reluctant to incorporate the use of more inclusive words, but it seems that a gap has opened.

One of the last linguistic movements The one that has generated the most controversy and debate is that of inclusive language, which proposes using the letter "E" as a replacement for "O" as a vowel that encompasses all genders. The RAE, founded in 1713, recently included in its observatory the finished "elle", which he defines as “a resource created and promoted in certain areas to refer to those who may not feel identified with either of the two traditionally existing genres. Its use is not widespread or established".

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This is an important milestone because two years ago the same institution rejected the use of expressions such as “todxs "," todes "or" tod @ s”. Although the presence of a term by the Observatory of words It does not imply that the institution accepts its use, it is good news and indicates that there is a linguistic interest in it. And is that the Observatory is a space that "provides information on words (or meanings of words) and expressions that currently do not appear in the dictionary".

Current laws in many countries aim to exercise the right to identity from self-determination. But these regulations continue to offer sex and gender markers from a binary spectrum: female / male and female / male. He Observatory full RAE He has not only made this approach to inclusive language with the pronoun "elle." He has also included in his list of words to check «transphobia "and" transphobic / or«. This is an advance for the linguistic universe of sexual diversity, although it is still necessary for the body to recognize these terms.