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CPLP

Specialty Definition: Community of Portuguese Language Countries

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa) or CPLP its a multilateral forum for mutual friendship between the Portuguese language nations across the world.

The CPLP Nations Accross the globe

The Portuguese-speaking countries are home to more than 223 million people located across the globe but having similar cultures. The CPLP nations have a combined area of 10,708,674 square kilometers, much larger than the USA or Canada.

These are the Eight Member States:

• Angola (Africa)
• Brazil (South America)
• Cape Verde (Africa)
• East Timor (Asia)
• Guinea-Bissau (Africa)
• Mozambique (Africa)
• Portugal (Europe)
• Saint Thomas and Prince or Sao Tome and Principe (Africa)

CPLP was formed in 1996 with seven countries (Angola, Brazil, Cape verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and Sao Tome and Principe). East Timor joined the community in 2002 after regaining independence from Indonesia.

Some Galicians want the autonomous region of Galicia (Galiza) in Spain to take part in this Union, because their language (Galego) is closely related to Portuguese (in fact many consider one to be a dialect of the other). The two languages (or dialects) have a common origin in Galicia and northen Portugal. A similar case happened with East Timor. But before independence East Timor had the status of Observer, although the exiled government of East Timor tried to gain full member status before independence.

External link

• Official site in Portuguese.

  Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Community of Portuguese Language Countries."

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