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Not to be missed

Preparing for the MEAE Orient competitive examination

14 weeks of preparation
Start date: 4/05
Summer break: 13/7 to 21/8 
End date: 18/9

Doctor Honoris Causa award ceremony

Monday, March 30, 6 p.m.

Strategic intelligence professions

The benefits of country and language expertise
Thursday, April 9 at 5pm
 

Sciences Po-Inalco Spring School

"Urban futures: thinking and building the resilient city", May 26-29, 2026

Carte du monde vue de nuit avec les continents éclairés

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Discover the languages taught at Inalco

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amharic berber comorian hausa malagasy manding fula soninke swahili wolof yoruba
burmese bislama cebuano cham drehu filipino ilocano indonesian - malaysian khmer lao mon siamese tahitian tai lu vietnamese
oceanic languages
algerian arabic literal arabic literal arabic literal arabic moroccan arabic syro-lebanese arabic tunisian arabic egyptian arabic hassaniya suret
cantonese chinese taiwanese
korean
modern hebrew judeo-arabic judeo-spanish judeo-spanish yiddish
bengali hindi nepali urdu romani sinhalese tamil tibetan telugu
japanese
russian
armenian azeri georgian kurdish mongolian ossetian uzbek uyghur pashto persian qazaq tatar turkish
albanian bosnian croatian serbian bulgarian belarusian estonian finnish modern greek hungarian latvian lithuanian macedonian udmurt polish romanian slovak slovenian sorbian czech ukrainian
guarani inuktitut maya nahuatl quechua

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