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ILARA, is a centre for training in, expertise on and resources relating to languages that are rarely studied in a university setting. Established in 2020, it is one of the four Institutes of École Pratique des...
ILARA, is a centre for training in, expertise on and resources relating to languages that are rarely studied in a university setting. Established in 2020, it is one of the four Institutes of École Pratique des...
In 2023, the world marks eighty years since the publication of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince in French and of its first translation into English. This extraordinary book holds the record as one...
LARA classes establish a bridge between ancient languages, documented only in writing, and languages with an oral tradition, whose documentation includes an audio-visual dimension.
by Murad Suleymanov What is the significance of the Kipchak statues, or “stone women”, found mainly in Ukraine? Discover the culture and language of the Kipchak of Eastern Europe, better known as the Cumans....
by Michaël Guichard Was the mysterious language of the women and lamenters of Sumer actually spoken? This blog post explores the role of Emesal in the linguistic history of Sumer. The states that flourished...
ILARA launches its new series, the ILARA for Researchers, with Claude Rilly, Director of Research at CNRS and Director of Studies at EPHE-PSL! The ILARA for Researchers presents the most recent research on rare...
by Dorian Pastor In memory of Alexander Vovin (1961–2022) Part 2: Heritage When tracing the origin of a word, a linguist encounters two possibilities: the word is either inherited, meaning it can be traced...
ILARA Online is pleased to launch its new series, Speakers of ILARA! For the first video of this series, we are delighted to meet Marie-Rose Ta Nui Agnie, Trainer at the Te Fare Natura...
by Hélène Gérardin When we hear of agglutination, we think of crowds, cells or grains, but certainly not of languages. However, languages too can agglutinate things, and in a surprisingly complex way! If a...
by Muriel Debié A Syriac inscription reveals the name of a young woman with a hairstyle traditional of Edessa. This entry introduces a little-known corpus of mosaics currently displayed in the Department of Oriental...
by Dorian Pastor Part 1: Covering Distances When a linguist wants to trace the origin of a word, he or she is faced with two options: either the word is inherited, i.e. traced back...