Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature

The Abuabdullo Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature (Институти забон ва адабиёт ба номи А. Рӯдакии; Институт языка и литературы имени А. Рудаки; ) is the regulatory body for the Tajik variety of Persian language, headquartered in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. It is one of the oldest research institutes in the Tajik Academy of Sciences; it acts as the official authority on the language and contributes to linguistic research on the Tajik language and other languages of Tajikistan.

The Institute of Language and Literature in the Tajik Republic was founded during the Soviet era on 17 March 1932. In 1958, on the 1100th anniversary of the birth of the founder of Persian-Tajik literature Abuabdullo Rudaki, the institute was named in his honour.