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Not to be missed

Creation of a "Migrations & Climat" collective fresco

Apply from October 13 to 26

Inalco multilingual short story competition

Submit your work online before February 3, 2026, 11:59 pm (Paris time)

Comparative views: environments, changing the air

The screenings will focus on the environment and will be followed by a discussion with filmmakers and experts.

International mediations in tension: between fragmented identities and technological standardization

A roundtable discussion organized in partnership with the Paris Peace Forum, as part of the DECRIPT research program, Tuesday, October 28

Carte du monde vue de nuit avec les continents éclairés

DECRIPT research program

October 2025 - Launch of the inaugural seminar cycle of the "Dispositif d'Étude des Crises et des Récits cIvilisationnels par la Pluridisciplinarité et les Terrains"

Un groupe de personnes portent dans leurs mains des bulles de paroles de couleurs et formes différentes

EUniWell

Since the end of 2023, Inalco has been a member of EUniWell, a European academic alliance dedicated to promoting societal "well-being."

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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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