Halaman ini merupakan daftar badan yang mengatur bahasa baku, biasanya badan tersebut disebut akademi bahasa . Kegiatan akademi atau badan tersebut tersebut dilatarbelakangi atau berhubungan dekat dengan ideologi purisme bahasa, dan institusi tersebut biasanya menerbitkan pedoman preskriptif untuk penggunaan bahasa, termasuk kamus normatif[1] yang bertujuan mempreskripsikan makna dan cara penggunaan kosakata. Badan bahasa biasanya juga mengusulkan dan menjaga sebuah sistem ejaan resmi.
Whereas a number of the puristically motivated language societies have assumed de facto responsibility for language cultivation, the decisions of the academies have often had the force of law. ... Since academies are so closely associated with the notion of purism, a brief word on their history may not be out of place. The first academy to deal expressly and exclusively with language matters was the Accademia della Crusca, ... Its orientation was essentially conservative, favouring a return to the Tuscan language as cultivated in the fourteenth century over the innovations of contemporary renaissance poets like Torquato Tasso. ... One of its first tasks – as with so many academies to follow – was to produce a large-scale prescriptive dictionary of Italian