Welcome to the website of the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations. From undergraduate to doctoral level, our teaching – underpinned by research – is aimed at all types of learners: A-level graduates, students, working professionals returning to education, and those undertaking continuing professional development.

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Back to school at Inalco

All the information about the start of the 2026 academic year

Back-to-School Lecture on Areal Studies

Lecture by Michael Lucken on Tuesday 15 September, 5.15 pm

Registration for Inalco's MOOCs

New session starting October 5: Turkish, Arabic, Quechua, and open science applied to areal studies

Launch of the Inalco Student Portal

With the app, you can easily access essential information: news and events, community and civic life, and much more!

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DECRIPT Research Programme

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Find out which languages are taught at INALCO

Interactive map – You can view the geographical regions and the languages spoken in those regions 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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