About the Department

The Department of Linguistics and Philology is a part of the Faculty of Languages, and therefore within the Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences. It is responsible for research and education in African and Asian languages and cultures, the European classical languages, as well as linguistics and computational linguistics (language technology). The Department is headed by a prefect and a council.

Approximately 90 people work at the Department: circa 15 professors, 15 associate professors, 30 PhD students and 30 other researchers. The department is home to more than twenty externally funded research projects.

Each year the Department offers over 250 courses to approximately 1,500 students (450 full-time students), at bachelor (first-cycle), master (second-cycle) and doctoral (third-cycle) levels. They cover more than twenty languages, such as Classical Greek and Latin, Chinese, Hindi, Sanskrit, Iranian languages (Persian, Kurdish, Balochi), Semitic languages (Arabic, Aramaic/Syriac, Hebrew), Assyriology (Akkadian and Sumerian), Swahili and Turkic languages (Karaim, Turkish, Uzbek). Other topics are more theoretically oriented, such as linguistics, comparative Indo-European linguistics and computational linguistics/language technology.

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