# Language Study

**Source**: https://artsandhumanities.fas.harvard.edu/language-study
**Parent**: https://artsandhumanities.fas.harvard.edu/

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](https://oue.fas.harvard.edu/academics/special-learning-opportunities/language-citation/) 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](https://alp.fas.harvard.edu)

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](https://celtic.fas.harvard.edu/studying-modern-celtic-languages-harvard)[& Literatures](http://www.celtic.fas.harvard.edu/modernCeltic.shtml)

Breton, Modern Irish, Old Irish, Modern Welsh, Middle Welsh, Scottish Gaelic

### [The Classics](https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/language-courses)

Ancient and Medieval Latin, Ancient Greek, Modern Greek

### [East Asian Languages & Civilizations](https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/languages)

Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Manchu, Mongolian, Uyghur, Vietnamese

### [English](http://english.fas.harvard.edu/)

Old English

### [Germanic Languages & Literatures](https://german.fas.harvard.edu/undergraduate)

German, Swedish, and language tutorials in Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, and Norwegian

### [Linguistics](https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/)

[American Sign Language](https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/asl), Hittite,Indo-European, Old Church Slavonic

### [Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations](https://nelc.fas.harvard.edu/languages)

Akkadian, Albanian, Arabic, Aramaic, Armenian, Egyptian, Hebrew (Classical and Modern), Kurdish, Persian, Sumerian, Turkish, Ugaritic, Yiddish

### [Romance Languages & Literatures](https://rll.fas.harvard.edu/pages/language-programs)

Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

### [Slavic Languages & Literatures](https://slavic.fas.harvard.edu/pages/language-study)

Russian, Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian

### [South Asian Studies](https://sas.fas.harvard.edu/languages)

Hindi-Urdu,Nepali, Sanskrit, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan language courses and Bahasa Indonesia, Bengali, and Burmese language tutorials