Oriental languages
Oriental languages is a term used by many universities for a faculty or a group of subjects .
The term encompasses a number of languages from the Near and Middle East and the associated fields of study , but often also languages from North Africa and the Far East .
With regard to the living or ancient languages, the designation is also not entirely uniform.
For example, the earlier Bonn “ Seminar for Oriental Languages ” dealt with Arabic , Chinese , Indonesian , Japanese , Korean , Persian , Turkish and Vietnamese , while elsewhere (e.g. in Switzerland ) also linguistics, Sanskrit or Hittite and another 5–10 “dead” Languages are included.
The latter are in turn assigned to the “ biblical-oriental languages ” at some universities .