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{{Short description|Institute of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries}}
{{Infobox organisation
|name             = International Portuguese Language Institute
|native_name      = Instituto Internacional da Língua Portuguesa
|native_name_lang = pt
|image            = Flag CPLP.svg
|size             = 100px
|caption          = 
|motto            =
|formation        = 1989
|headquarters     = [[Praia, Cape Verde|Praia]], [[Cabo Verde]]
|language         = Portuguese
|leader_title     = President
|leader_name      = Marisa Guião de Mendonça
|membership       = 
|website          = [http://iilp.cplp.org/ iilp.cplp.org]
}}

The '''International Portuguese Language Institute''' ({{langx|pt|Instituto Internacional da Língua Portuguesa}}, IILP) is the [[Community of Portuguese Language Countries|Community of Portuguese Language Countries's]] institute supporting the spread and popularity of the [[Portuguese language]] in the world. The institute's headquarters is located in [[Praia]], [[Cabo Verde]].

==History==
The institute is recent, and its statutes are still not well regulated. However, its history starts in 1989 when the countries of Portuguese language gathered in [[São Luís do Maranhão]] in [[Brazil]] to create a base for a Portuguese language community. The Brazilian president, [[José Sarney]], proposed the idea of an international institute to promote the language. Only 10 years later in a meeting in [[São Tomé and Príncipe]], a small island-nation in the Gulf of Guinea, the institute's objectives, implementation and location (Cape Verde) were set.

The IILP's fundamental objectives are "the promotion, the defence, the enrichment and the spread of the Portuguese language as a vehicle of culture, education, information and access to scientific and technologic knowledge and of official use in international forums".

The members of the IILP are the member states of the ''[[Lusophone Commonwealth]]'' – the CPLP: [[Angola]], [[Brazil]], [[Cape Verde]], [[East Timor]], [[Guinea-Bissau]], [[Mozambique]], [[Portugal]], [[São Tomé and Príncipe]], and since 2014 [[Equatorial Guinea]].

==See also==
*[[Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras]]
*[[CPLP]]
*[[Language planning]]
*[[Language policy]]

==External links==
{{Commons category|Instituto Internacional de Língua Portuguesa}}
*{{Official website|http://iilp.cplp.org/}}

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[[Category:Portuguese language]]
[[Category:Portuguese language academies]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1999]]
[[Category:Praia]]
[[Category:Organizations based in Cape Verde]]
[[Category:1999 establishments in Cape Verde]]