Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) Offered by Title VI National Resource Centers and by the Defense Language Institute and the Foreign Service Institute, 20061
World Region Title VI NRC LCTLs Taught in 2006-07 Title VI NRC LCTLs Available 2006-072 FSI3 & DLI4 LCTLs Available 2006-2010 Title VI NRC Semester Enrollments in LCTLs 2006-076 Title VI FLAS Fellowships Awarded for LCTLs 2006-077
Africa 21 45 11 4,370 188
Asia 11 22 n/a 5,378 47
Canada 1 1 1 5 3
East Asia 11 17 10 32,683 294
Europe & Russia 19 76 n/a 1,992 22
Europe 15 29 n/a 1,616 11
Inner Asia 14 16 12 428 35
Latin America 16 19 5 5,918 271
Middle East 26 60 22 9,248 264
Pacific Islands 5 13 0 526 6
Russia/Eastern Europe 36 65 28 7,825 289
South Asia 16 25 13 3,524 163
Southeast Asia 11 13 9 3,451 133
Western Europe 18 30 17 3,654 55
Total 131 Langs5 238 Langs5 81 Langs5 80,618 1,887

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. (We have not included enrollments from the 9 International Studies NRCs not specialized to a world region and the 3 Canadian NRCs.)

2 - "LCTLs available" are those that Title VI NRCs state in their abstract on the US/ED IEPS-IRIS website at (http://www.ieps-iris.org/iris/ieps/search.cfm?sort=Institution&type=ADV&tab=BRW&goFind=go&programs=13). 38 of these languages are historical languages, which are ancient or extinct according to Ethnologue (www.ethnologue.com) or are used only for reading ancient texts.

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 - 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.

5 - Languages that overlap world regions are only counted once in the "Total" row.

6 - There was some overlap of reported language enrollments at a few universities which host NRCs for more than one world region (e.g. Arabic for African and Middle East centers), those enrollments are counted only once in the “Total” row of the table.  We have accounted for a total of ? overlapping LCTL enrollments by subtracting them from the subtotal of all world region enrollments (80,618 - ?) giving us ?.

7 - Total FLAS Fellowships includes 106 awarded by International NRCs.  These have been added to the 1,632 FLAS Fellowships awarded in the world regions listed above (106 + 1,781 = 1,887).

Last Updated: 3/13/2009