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Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales

Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (English: National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations),[1] abbreviated as INALCO, is a French Grand Etablissement with a specializing in the teaching of languages and cultures from the world. Its coverage spans languages of Central Europe, Africa, Asia, America, and Oceania. With 104 languages taught as of 2024, this institution is currently the world's largest provider of language training courses.[2][3][4][5]

Type

1669

14M€

Jean-François Huchet

200

8,000

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France

It is also informally called Langues’O (IPA: [lɑ̃ɡz‿o]) in French, an abbreviation for Langues orientales.


The INALCO logo is made up of the school's acronym, each part of which is translated into languages written in non-Latin characters, corresponding to Inalco's fields of teaching and research.[1]

1669 founds the École des jeunes de langues language school

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

1795 The École spéciale des langues orientales (Special School for Oriental Languages) is established

1873 The two schools merge

1914 The school is renamed the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes (ENLOV)

1971 The school is renamed the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales or Inalco (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations)

1984 Inalco is recognized as a

Grand établissement

2010 Inalco becomes a founding member of

Sorbonne Paris Cité

2011 Inalco centralizes all of its taught courses under one roof at 65 rue des Grands Moulins in Paris

[6]

Teaching[edit]

Organization[edit]

Inalco is structured partly into departments, whose perimeter corresponds to a region of the world, and partly into professionally-oriented courses or sectors.[7] Departments may be monolingual or group together several language sections. Inalco's courses prepare students for careers in intercultural communication and training, international trade, teaching French as a foreign language, advanced international studies, and Natural Language Processing.

14 research teams (see below)

Colonial School, Paris

Notes[edit]

a.^ Institute: ተቋም [Amharic]; NAtional: национален [Bulgarian]; Languages: שפה [Hebrew]; Civilizations: 文化 [Chinese]; Oriental: شرقية [Arabic]

Inalco official website

Alumni website