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Not to be missed

Open House 2026

Discover Inalco and its training courses on Saturday, February 7, 2026!

JIOR - Information and Orientation Day 2026

Are you already a student at Inalco? Find out more about the different options available to you after L1 and L3.

Compulsory seminars in Master 1

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Summer school - French language and culture

July 2 to 24, for international students - French levels A2, B1 or B2
Application deadline February 5

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DECRIPT research program

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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 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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