A list of languages offered at UCLA. The list is organized according to the department in which languages are offered.

Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures

• Chinese
• Japanese
• Korean

South & Southeastern Asian Languages:

• Hindi
• Indonesian
• Tagalog
• Thai
• Vietnamese

English Department

• Yiddish

Department of French and Francophone Studies

• French

Department of Germanic Languages

• Afrikaans
• German
• Dutch

Italian Department

• Italian

Department of Linguistics

African Languages:

• Hausa
• Swahili
• Wolof
• Zulu

Indigenous Languages of the Americas:

• Quechua (with collaboration of the Latin American Center and Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL)

Department of Near East Asian Languages & Cultures

• Arabic
• Armenian
• Bashkir
• Hebrew
• Persian
• Turkish
• Uzbek

Scandinavian Section

• Danish
• Finnish
• Norwegian
• Swedish

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

• Czech
• Hungarian
• Polish
• Romanian
• Russian
• Serbian/Croatian
• Ukrainian

Department of Spanish & Portuguese

• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Catalan

Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL

• English as a Second Language

Ancient Languages Taught at UCLA

Classics Department:

• Classical Latin
• Medieval Latin
• Ancient Greek
• Mycenaean Greek
• Graduate Seminar Latin (242) incorporates material from: Oscan, Umbrian, South Picene and other ancient Italic dialects (Volscian, Paelignian, etc.)
• Venetic
• Messapic
• Etruscan
• Ancient Indo-European languages of Anatolia*: Hittite, Palaic, Luwian (both cuneiform and hieroglyphic), Lycian and Lydian.

*Taught in alternating years by Indo-European Studies and Classics

East Asian Languages and Cultures Department:

• Classical Sanskrit
• Vedic Sanskrit
• Pali
• Prakrits

English Department:

• Old English
• Old Irish
• Medieval Welsh

Germanic Languages Department:

• Gothic
• Old High German
• Old Saxon
• Old Norse

Indo-European Studies:

• Tocharian A and B (separate, but closely related, languages).
• Ancient Indo-European languages of Anatolia*: Hittite, Palaic, Luwian (both cuneiform and hieroglyphic), Lycian, Lydian.

*Taught in alternating years by Indo-European Studies and Classics

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department:

• Akkadian
• Egyptian
• Coptic
• Sumerian
• Aramaic
• Chagatay (Classical Uzbek)
• Ottoman
• Middle Turkic: Karakhanid, Khorazmian,
• Mamluk-Kipchak, and Old Anatolian
• Ugaritic
• Phoenician
• Classical Armenian

Slavic Department:

• Old Church Slavonic
• Graduate Seminar Introduction to Baltic Linguistics (251) incorporates material from: Common Slavic, Eastern Baltic Lithuanian, Eastern Baltic Latvian, Gothic, Western Baltic Prussian.

Published: Thursday, July 14, 2005