YEREVAN, DECEMBER 26, NOYAN TAPAN. As a result of checkings conducted by RA State Language Inspection in 2006, 59 economic entities were called for administrative liability due to having signboards in foreign languages. As Lavrenti Mirzoyan, Head of the State Language Inspection, reported on December 26, in 2006 the total amount of fines was nearly 4 mln 40 thousand drams (nearly 12 thousand USD), which is less by 1 mln 450 thousand as compared with the previous year. In L.Mirzoyan's words, some economic entities motivate this by not being familiarized with the legislative field. In the words of the inspection head, this is their omission. Spelling and Terminologial Manual was published for the purpose of improving the situation. In the manual laws regarding the sphere were presented by a separate part. Nevertheless, in L.Mirzoyan's words, as a result of periodical checkings the number of signboards and advertisement boards in foreign languages reduces year by year. In L.Mirzoyan's words, worship of foreign things prevails in all spheres today in Armenia, but everything should be done for the people to realize that RA state language is Armenian and we should respect our native tongue. "Purity and preservation of the language is the task of every Armenian," L.Mirzoyan said.

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