All Languages Offered by the US/ED Title VI National Resource Centers (2006-07), U.S. Defense Language Institute (2006-07), and U.S. Foreign Service Institute (2008-2010) - Alphabetical Listing
This table serves as an index for locating which Title VI world regions have NRC centers that offer the language or definitely were teaching it in 2006-07.  It also identifies the languages which were offered by the Foreign Service or Defense Language Institutes in 2006-2010.  
Note: Historical and ancient languages that are used for intepretation of languages no longer spoken or written are listed in the table because the universities offer and teach them (+); however, no US/ED Title VI FLAS Fellowships are awarded to learners.  Only graduate students studying contemporary foreign languages are supported with FLAS Fellowships.  FSI and DLI do not offer any of these historical/ancient languages.
x - language available 2006-2010                                        ■ - language taught at NRCs in 2006-07      
# - language available at either DLI, FSI, or both                 (+) - historical language
World Region abbreviations for Title VI NRCs: AF=Africa, EA= East Asia, EER=East Europe & Russia, IA=Inner Asia, LA= Latin America, ME=Middle East, PI=Pacific Islands, SA=South Asia, SEA=Southeast Asia, WE=West Europe
 Less Commonly Taught Languages plus French, German, Italian, and Spanish Institutions Offering or Teaching the Language
Title VI NRCs1 DLI2 FSI3 DLI / FSI
World Region(s) for which language was taught 2006-07 (■) or offered 2006-07 (x) Offered in 2006-2007 Offered in 2008-2010 Offered in 2006-2010
Acholi / Luo     AF        
Afrikaans   AF   x x #
Akan / Twi   AF ■      
Akkadian (+) (+) ME ■      
Albanian     EER ■ x x #
Altaic   EA        
Amharic   AF ■ x x #
Ancient Egyptian (+) (+) ME, AF ■      
Aprabhramsa   SA        
Arabic (Classical) (+)   ME        
Arabic (Egyptian)   ME, AF ■   x #
Arabic (Gulf dialect)   ME        
Arabic (Iraqi)   ME ■   x #
Arabic (Judeo)   ME        
Arabic (Levantine)   ME ■      
Arabic (Maghribi)   ME        
Arabic (Modern Standard)   ME ■ x x #
Arabic (Morrocan)   AF        
Arabic, North Levantine     ■      
Arabic (Sudanese)   AF ■      
Aramaic (+) (+) ME ■      
Armenian   ME, EER ■      
Armenian (Classical) (+) (+) ME, EER ■      
Armenian (Eastern)   ME ■   x #
Armenian (Western)   ME ■      
Asilulu   SEA        
Assyrian     ■      
Avadhi   SA        
Avestan (+)   ME        
Aymara   LA ■   x #
Azeri / Azerbaijani   IA, ME, EER ■   x #
Balinese   SEA        
Baluchi   SA        
Bamana / Bambara   AF ■      
Bashkir   EER        
Basque   WE        
Batak   SEA        
Belarusian   EER        
Bemba   AF        
Bengali   SA ■ x x #
Berber   AF, ME        
Bosnian   EER ■   x #
Braj Bhasha   SA        
Bulgarian   EER ■ x x #
Buriat   IA        
Burmese   SEA ■ x x #
Burmese, Old (+)   SEA        
Caboverdiano   AF        
Cambodian / Khmer   SEA ■ x x #
Catalan   WE ■      
Chaghatay (+)   IA, ME, EER        
Chamorro   SEA ■      
Chechen   EER        
Chewa    AF ■      
Chinese (Cantonese)   EA ■ x x #
Chinese (Mandarin)   EA, SEA ■ x x #
Chuvash   EER, IA        
Coptic (+) (+) ME ■      
Croatian     ■   x #
Czech   EER, WE ■   x #
Danish   WE ■ x x #
Demotic (+)   ME        
Dutch   WE ■   x #
Efutu   AF        
Eskimo   EER        
Estonian   EER, WE, IA ■   x #
Ethiopic / Ge'ez (+)   ME        
Evenki   IA        
Ewe   AF        
Finnish   EER, IA, WE ■ x x #
French   WE ■ x x #
Fula / Pulaar   AF ■      
Gaelic [Celtic]   WE ■      
Gandhari (+)   SA        
Georgian   EER, ME ■   x #
German    WE ■ x x #
Greek (Ancient) (+) (+) WE ■      
Greek (Modern)   EER, ME, WE ■   x #
Guarani   LA     x #
Gujarati   SA ■   x #
Haitian French Creole   LA ■   x #
Hausa   AF ■   x #
Hebrew (Biblical/Classical) (+) (+) ME ■      
Hebrew (Mishnaic) (+)   ME        
Hebrew (Rabbinic) (+)   ME        
Hebrew (Modern/Israeli)   ME ■ x x #
Hindi   SA, ME ■ x x #
Hittite (+) (+) ME ■      
Hmong   SEA ■      
Hungarian   EER, IA, WE ■ x x #
Hurrian (+)   ME        
Icelandic   WE ■   x #
Igbo   AF ■      
Ilokano   SEA ■      
Indonesian   SEA ■ x x #
Irish   WE        
Italian   WE ■ x x #
Japanese   EA ■ x x #
Javanese   SEA ■      
Kannada   SA ■      
Kanuri   AF        
Kashmiri   SA        
Kawi / Old Javanese (+)   SEA        
Kazakh   EER, IA, ME ■   x #
Khowar   SA        
Kikuyu   AF ■      
Kimbundu   AF        
Kirghiz / Kyrgyz   EER, IA, ME ■   x #
Korean   EA ■ x x #
Kpelle   AF        
Krio   AF        
Kurdish   ME     x #
Kurmanji       x   #
Lak   EER        
Lamnso   AF        
Lao   SEA ■ x x #
Latin (+) (+) WE ■      
Latvian   EER, WE ■   x #
Legbo   AF        
Lingala   AF ■ x   #
Lithuanian   EER, WE ■   x #
Luganda   AF        
Lusaamia / Luyia   AF        
Maasai   AF        
Macedonian   EER ■   x #
Magahi   SA        
Maithili   SA        
Malagasy   AF ■      
Malay   SEA   x x #
Malayalam   SA ■   x #
Manchu   EA, IA        
Mandinka   AF        
Maori   PI ■      
Marathi   SA ■      
Mari / Cheremis   IA        
Marquesan   PI        
Maya     ■      
Maya (Classical Yucatec) (+)   LA        
Maya (Kaqchikel)   LA ■      
Maya (Yucatec)   LA ■      
Mende   AF        
Mixtec   LA ■      
Mohawk     ■      
Mongolian   EA, IA ■   x #
Mongolian (Classical) (+)   IA        
Mordvin   IA        
Nahuatl   LA ■      
Nepali   SA ■   x #
Norse, Old (+)   WE        
Norwegian   WE ■ x x #
Nupe   AF        
Nzema   AF        
Okinawan, Central     ■      
Oku   AF        
O'Odham   LA        
Oromo   AF        
Oshiwambo / Ndonga   AF        
Pahlavi / Pahlavani   ME        
Pali (+) (+) SA ■      
Panjabi / Punjabi   SA, ME ■   x #
Pashto   EER, ME, SA ■ x x #
Persian (Old) (+)   ME        
Persian, Afghan (Dari)   ME   x x #
Persian, Iranian (Farsi)   ME ■ x x #
Persian (Tajiki)   SA, EER, IA, ME ■   x #
Pidgin (W. Africa)   AF        
Polish   EER, WE ■   x #
Portuguese   AF, LA, WE ■ x x #
Prakrit (+)   SA        
Quechua   LA ■   x #
Quechua (Ayacucho)     ■      
Quechua (Cuzco)     ■      
Quiché (K'iche')   LA ■      
Quichua   LA ■      
Rajasthani   SA        
Romani   EER        
Romanian   EER ■ x x #
Ruanda / Rwanda   AF        
Russian   EER, WE ■ x x #
Russian, Old (+)   EER        
Sadari   SA        
Samoan   PI ■      
Sanskrit   ME, SA, IA ■      
Serbo-Croatian   EER, WE ■ x x #
Sesotho   AF        
Setswana   AF        
Shona   AF        
Sindhi   SA        
Sinhala / Singhalese   SA ■ x x #
Slavic, Old Church (+) (+) EER, WE ■      
Slovak   EER ■   x #
Slovene / Slovenian   EER     x #
Somali   AF ■ x   #
Sorani       x   #
Spanish   LA, WE ■ x x #
Sumerian (+) (+) ME ■      
Swahili   AF ■ x x #
Swati   AF        
Swedish [Scandinavian]   WE ■ x x #
Syriac (+) (+) ME ■      
Tagalog / Filipino   EA, SEA ■ x x #
Tahitian   PI ■      
Taiwanese   EA ■      
Tamil   SA ■   x #
Tamil, Classical (+)   SA        
Tatar   EER        
Tausug   SEA        
Telugu   SA ■   x #
Temne   AF        
Tetun   SEA        
Thai   SEA, EA ■ x x #
Tibetan   EA, IA, SA ■   x #
Tibetan, Old (+)   IA        
Tigrinya   AF ■   x #
Tocharian (+)   ME        
Tonga   AF        
Tongan   PI ■      
Totonac   LA        
Tsonga   AF        
Tuamotuan   PI        
Turkic (Middle) (+)   EER        
Turkic (Old) (+)   EER        
Turkish   ME, IA, EER ■ x x #
Turkish (Ottoman) (+)   ME, IA, EER        
Turkmen   EER, IA ■   x #
Turoyo   ME        
Tuvan   EER        
Ugaritic (+) (+) ME ■      
Ukrainian   EER, WE ■   x #
Urdu   ME, SA ■ x x #
Uyghur   EA, EER, ME, IA ■      
Uzbek   EER, EA, IA, ME ■ x x #
Vedic (+)   SA        
Vietnamese   EA, SEA ■   x #
Welsh   WE ■      
Wolof   AF ■      
Xhosa   AF ■   x #
Xinca   LA        
Yakut   EER        
Yiddish   EER, ME, WE ■      
Yoruba   AF ■      
Zapotec   LA ■      
Zarma   AF        
Zulu   AF ■   x #
Total4 LCTLs5 available:  14   131 40 77 81
Total4, all languages: 14   135 44 81 85
Total4 contemporary6 LCTLs taught 2006-07: 117

1 - Data for these tables are drawn from the US/ED IEPS-IRIS website at (http://www.ieps-iris.org/iris/ieps/search.cfm?type=DLD&tab=DLD) accessed on 12/10/2008.  x - "Languages available" are identifed in the abstracts of the NRC's program page on the IEPS-IRIS website as those in which the center has the capacity to provide instruction.  

2 - Defense Language Institute (DLI) data about languages available are derived from the DLI website at <http://www.dliflc.edu/academics/academics_index.html>, last consulted on Dec. 16, 2008.

3 - Foreign Service Institute data on language offerings available are derived from the FSI 2008-2010 course catalog available on the FSI website at (http://fsitraining.state.gov/catalog/2008_SchCoursesCatalog.pdf) last accessed on Dec. 16, 2008.

4 - LCTLs excludes Spanish, French, Italian, German

5 - Contemporary languages exclude the historical/ancient (+) languages offered at NRCs. Of the 38 historical languages, 14 were taught in 2006-07.

(+) Historical languages are those that are ancient, extinct, or are used only for reading historical texts.  The principal source of this designation is Ethnologue at <www.ethnologue.com>.

Last Updated: 3/13/2009