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Inalco - Pôle des langues et civilisations (65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris)

Semaine des données de la recherche 2026

Research Data Week 2026

Maison de la Recherche de l'Inalco (2 rue de Lille 75007 Paris) on 19/05 - Bibliothèque Jean-Claude Colliard (1, rue de la Glacière 75013 Paris) and Bibliothèque Sorbonne Nouvelle (8 Avenue de St-Mandé, 75012 Paris) on 20/05

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Not to be missed

Continuing Education Open Day

Find out about our Continuing Education on 13 June 2026

Launch of the Inalco Student Portal

With the app, you have easy access to essential information: news and events, community and civic life and much more!

Intensive language courses

Registrations from April 3 to May 17

Emile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature

Join us for the ceremony on 3 June 2026 

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Discover the languages taught at Inalco

Interactive map - The geographical areas and languages of these areas can be consulted by clicking

amharic berber comorian hausa malagasy manding fula soninke swahili wolof yoruba
burmese bislama cebuano cham drehu filipino ilocano indonesian (malaysian, malay) 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 hassâniyya 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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