Language Study
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A profound relationship exists between language study and the humanities. Students are encouraged to pursue a rigorous study of another language, not just to fulfill a requirement or to earn a language citation, but as a way of enriching and deepening research, accessing the benefits of advanced seminars in language programs, and, ultimately, bettering career prospects in many different fields.
Languages Offered at Harvard
African Language Program
Gikuyu, Swahili, Twi, Yoruba, African language tutorials (Afrikaans, Amharic, Bamanakan, Bemba, Cape Verdean Creole, Chichewa, Dinka, Gullah, Haitian Creole, Hassaniyah, Hausa, Ibibio, Igbo, Jamaican Patois, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Krio, Lingala, Luganda, Malagasy, Oromo, Pulaar, Setswana, Shona, Somali, Sudanese Arabic, Tigrinya, Tshiluba, West African Pidgin, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu)
Celtic Languages& Literatures
Breton, Modern Irish, Old Irish, Modern Welsh, Middle Welsh, Scottish Gaelic
The Classics
Ancient and Medieval Latin, Ancient Greek, Modern Greek
East Asian Languages & Civilizations
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Manchu, Mongolian, Uyghur, Vietnamese
English
Old English
Germanic Languages & Literatures
German, Swedish, and language tutorials in Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, and Norwegian
Linguistics
American Sign Language, Hittite,Indo-European, Old Church Slavonic
Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Akkadian, Albanian, Arabic, Aramaic, Armenian, Egyptian, Hebrew (Classical and Modern), Kurdish, Persian, Sumerian, Turkish, Ugaritic, Yiddish
Romance Languages & Literatures
Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Slavic Languages & Literatures
Russian, Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
South Asian Studies
Hindi-Urdu,Nepali, Sanskrit, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan language courses and Bahasa Indonesia, Bengali, and Burmese language tutorials