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Turkish, the language of Eurasia
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This page has been translated automatically. Far from being "rare", Turkic languages rank 12th in the world, with almost 200 million speakers living in an area stretching from the Balkans to Western China, via the Middle East and the five Turkic-speaking republics of the former Soviet Union in Central Asia (Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and the small Republic of Northern Cyprus).
Dossier Turkic languages - Introduction
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This page has been translated automatically. No one can be unaware - but this is rarely explored further - that the Turkish language has spread over a vast area of Asia, and that certain linguists (at least those lulled by the illusions of the romanticism of the early days of the Republic) like to repeat that speakers of Turkish (i.e. the Turkic languages (sometimes spelt türk), often very distant from Turkish of Turkey) number between 150 and 180 million!
Writing in Amharic
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This page has been translated automatically. Amharic is written in Ethiopian characters, representing one of the few ancient African writing systems whose vast literary corpus has been attested for almost two millennia. This script, which has evolved over time, is used mainly, but not exclusively, for the Ethiosemitic languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Aztec diviners writing the weather
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After the Spanish conquest of central Mexico in the early 16th century, whole swathes of Aztec civilization disappeared, as did their capital, Mexico-Tenochtitlan, which was totally destroyed. But the conquest was not only military, with Cortes at its head, it was also spiritual, and this was the work of clerics, mainly Franciscans, who were convinced that to win over populations to the belief in a single god, it was necessary to know the other deeply in order to be able to transform him.
The syllabic script of Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit of the Canadian Eastern Arctic
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This page has been translated automatically. Writing is a fairly recent phenomenon among most Canadian Inuit. Until the middle of the 19th century, it was only present in Labrador, where Moravian missionaries of German origin had introduced a Latin writing system (very similar to the one they had introduced in Greenland). From 1855, two Wesleyan missionaries, John Horden and Edwin A. Watkins, introduced to the Inuit of southeast Hudson Bay the syllabic writing system that James Evans had invented in the 1830s-40s to transcribe Ojibwe and Cree (two languages of the Algonquian family).
The Turkish MOOC: A hybrid mediation tool for face-to-face and distance learning
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As part of Inalco's "Kit de contact en langues orientales"[1] project, the Turkish MOOC has been in preparation for two years. This is an online, self-study, distance learning audiovisual course. Like all MOOCs, it will be distributed free of charge to the general public. The aim of the Turkish MOOC is to acquire a rudimentary knowledge of the Turkish language, based on simple written and oral tasks referenced at CEFR level A1[2]: using greetings and polite expressions, introducing oneself, traveling, buying tickets, booking a hotel room, ordering in a restaurant, shopping and making purchases.
CILO ranked 1st best bac + 3 course in international trade
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Published on 13/10/2023
For the first time in 2016, Inalco's International Business and Oriental Language (CILO) degree has been ranked 5th among France's best Bachelor's/Bachelor's degrees in its category by SMBG, the national leader in ranking and comparing higher education programs. Nearly 500 courses are ranked in 47 specialties.