Indiana University teaches over 80 languages—that’s more than any university in the United States. This means you can study everything from Arabic to Zulu and gain valuable insights into how other people and cultures see the world.
Language fluency is global fluency
Language Explorers Scholarship
Incoming, first-year students for Fall 2024 are eligible to be considered for a scholarship to study a less commonly taught language at the Hamilton Lugar School. Scholarship amounts vary and are renewable. Eligible languages are listed below. Questions may be directed to hlsadmit@iu.edu.
Language Flagships
Master a critical language
Indiana University supports a nation-leading three US government Language Flagship programs, which provide instruction in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), and Russian. These programs only for undergraduate students.
Discover our flagship programs
Language Workshop
Learn through immersion
The Language Workshop is the most diverse program of its kind, offering eight weeks of intensive study in languages from Bosnian to Russian to Ukranian.
Explore the Language WorkshopCommunicate with the world
All Hamilton Lugar School majors are required to take at least four semesters of language study. Here is a sampling of the more than 80 languages taught at Indiana University (divided by region):
- Akan/Twi
- Bamana
- Swahili/Kiswahili
- Yoruba
- Zulu/IsiZulu
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- Japanese
- Korean
- Bosnian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Polish
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Ukrainian
- Azerbaijani
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Hungarian
- Kazakh
- Kurdish
- Kyrgyz
- Mongolian
- Persian
- Tibetan
- Turkish
- Uighur
- Uzbek
- Bengali
- Hindi
- Sanskrit
- Urdu
- Haitian Creole
- Quechua
- Yucatec Maya
- Arabic
- Egyptian–Middle (Hieroglyphic)
- Hebrew (Biblical and Modern)
- Burmese
- Indonesian
- Tagalog
- Thai
- Dutch
- Greek (Classical and Modern)
- Latin (Classical)
- Norwegian
- Yiddish