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The Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) was created in 1996 by 7 states including Portugal, Brazil, and Cape Verde to promote cooperation and friendship among Portuguese speaking nations. East Timor and Equatorial Guinea have since joined. The CPLP flag symbolizes the union of its members represented by waves for the sea connecting them. The CPLP aims to strengthen cooperation across areas like education, health, and culture while promoting the Portuguese language through projects. Language is crucial to the CPLP as it brings members together and is the backbone of activities to increase its use and teaching worldwide. The potential of the Portuguese language includes increasing a country's international projection and attracting economic resources through the Lusophone countries
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- 1. Lusophone World The community of Portuguese Language speaking countries: Importance of Portuguese Language
- 3. The flag symbolizes the Portuguese-speaking countries' union: having a blue circle, divided into eight equal wavy shapes (the numbers of members of the CPLP) representing the sea (primary bond between the Community), at the center of a white field, in the center of which a small concentrically blue circle was placed representing the union.
- 4. Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries was created on 1996 July by 7 state, Cape Verde, Guiney Bissau, Angola, Brazil, Monçambique, Portugal, São Tome e Principe. East Timor joined the community in 2002 after gaining independence. Equatorial Guinea joined in 2014. CPLP is an international governmental organization(IGO), for mutual friendship and cooperation among its member states.
- 5. Its main objectives are: Political and diplomatic cooperation between its member states, in particular to strengthen its presence in the international arena; The cooperation in all areas, including education, health, science and technology, defense, agriculture, public administration, communications, justice, public safety, culture, sports and media; The materialization of projects for the promotion and dissemination of the Portuguese language.
- 6. The importance of Portuguese language in CPLP How the policies of language involved within the CPLP? What is the essential potential on Language?
- 7. Language is Crucial (Benger and Huntington 2001) -Extremely important because it will affect a process of cultural diffusion in political and economic system.
- 8. How the policies of language involved within the CPLP Language is the primary element that brings the CPLP together Language is backbone of CPLP( most important part). Developed concrete activities for the promotion of the Portuguese language and culture around the world Contribute to increase number of Portuguese student, Portugal and Brazil
- 9. What is the essential potential on Language? Language increase an attractiveness(economic resources). Lusophone countries are playing important roles in south Atlantic in recent years which has experience of energy and security Angola Brazil, Guine Bissau, São Tome and Principe have a large potentials as energy produces (in oil and gas) Cape Verde's geographic location has attracted interest for security matters.
- 10. Language increase international projection, with common orthography. The Portuguese as Cohesive language( forming a unit whole). These become relevant action in the atlant Basin to exterd that is perceived by the other state as an organization that can facilitate or open new relations in the Lusophone world.