Overview
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, abbreviated as INALCO, is a French university specializing in the teaching of languages and cultures from the world. Its coverage spans languages of Central Europe, Africa, Asia, America, and Oceania.
It is also informally called Langues’O, an abbreviation for Langues orientales.
History
1669 Jean-Baptiste Colbert founds the École des jeunes de langues language school
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)
1982 Études Océan Indien (Indian Ocean Studies) journal begins publication;
1985 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
Teaching and research
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