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Languages Offered
The University of Pennsylvania offers instruction in well over 50 languages, including Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch and so on. In addition to the language courses that are offered as part of the degree programs in various majors, the unique institution of the Penn Language Center allows the University to offer a wide variety of less commonly taught languages, as well as other language courses for special purposes.
Languages Offered by Departments and Programs
(Offered through the Penn Language Center and the African Studies Center) Amharic, Swahili, Twi, Yoruba, Zulu, and tutorials in various African languages (currently Igbo, Setswana, Shona, Wolof)
Classical and Medieval Latin, Ancient Greek and (offered through the Penn Language Center) Modern Greek
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Classical Chinese, Classical Japanese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin and (offered through the Penn Language Center) Cantonese, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Thai and Vietnamese
Germanic Languages and Literatures
Dutch, German, Yiddish and Swedish
(Offered through the Penn Language Center) American Sign Language and Irish Gaelic
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Akkadian, Arabic, Avestan/Old Persian, Hittite, Modern and Biblical Hebrew, Sumerian, Syriac, Old Egyptian and (offered through the Penn Language Center) Persian and Turkish
French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and (offered through the Penn Language Center) Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
Russian and (offered through the Penn Language Center) Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Ukrainian
Gujarati, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu and (offered through the Penn Language Center) Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Panjabi, Pashto, Tamil and Telugu.