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Departmental councils
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This page has been translated automatically The department councils organize the operations of each of Inalco's eleven study departments, the plurilingual section of languages and cultures, and the two professional departments. They are elected by the department's teaching staff and students every three years.
Documentation of the Pesh language spoken in Honduras
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The main aim of linguistic documentation is the oral conservation (audio/video), transcription and analysis of languages that are often little-known and sometimes threatened with extinction. With the accelerating loss of linguistic diversity in our world, it is important to record as much as possible of the linguistic and cultural wealth still present today. In North America, for example, as mentioned by Goddard (1996: 3), of the 329 native languages once spoken, 120 are already extinct, 72 are spoken only by the elderly, 91 by adults and some children, and only 46 are spoken by both adult and child speakers. Linguistic documentation is fundamental to the knowledge of indigenous languages, and even to their preservation if certain conditions are met, in particular the willingness and involvement of community members in the documentation project. This experience will be illustrated in this article through the project to document the Pesh language spoken in Honduras.
Anne Grynberg and George Alao return from a cooperation mission in Nigeria
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At the end of March 2019, Anne Grynberg - then vice-president of Inalco, responsible for international relations - and George Alao - HDR lecturer in Yorùbá language and literature in the Africa department - went on an eight-day mission to Nigeria to develop existing partnerships with two of the country's leading universities, Ibadan and Ilé-Ifè. They were accompanied by Professor Lars Berge, historian and professor in the Department of African Studies at Dalarna University in Sweden, with which Inalco has been actively cooperating for twelve years. The mission was particularly interesting and fruitful, and enabled the structuring of joint teaching and research projects.