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If you are looking for locations in North America where you can study one of the less commonly taught languages (LCTL) listed below, try the following searchable database of course offerings:

• North American LCTL Course Listings
  Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota

LCTL teaching resources, guides, and lesson plans can be found here:

• UCLA Language Materials Project

Additional language resources may be found on the pages for individual countries.

• Akkadian Cuneiform
  John Heise, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research

• Arabic Language Resources
  Columbia University Libraries

• Armenian
  M. Paul Lewis, ethnologue.com
• Language Profiles: Armenian
  UCLA Language Materials Project

• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
  M. Paul Lewis, ethnologue.com
  

• Avestan
  M. Paul Lewis, ethnologue.com
  
• Information on Avestan Language
  Joseph H. Peterson

• Language Family Trees: Afro-Asiatic, Berber
  M. Paul Lewis, ethnologue.com
• Tamazight, Central Atlas
  M. Paul Lewis, ethnologue.com

• Coptic
  M. Paul Lewis, ethnologue.com
• The Coptic Language
  Hany N. Takla, stshenouda.com
  

• Hebrew Language Resources
  Columbia University Libraries

• Persian Language Resources
  Columbia University Libraries
  

• Judeo-Arabic
  M. Paul Lewis, ethnologue.com
  

• Dzhidi
  M. Paul Lewis, ethnologue.com

• Association for Persian Logic, Language & Computing
• Bibliography on the Kurdish Language
  Burhan Dinler, xs4all.nl
  
• An introductory course on Kurdish Language [Kurmanji dialect] (Kurdish-English)
  F. R. Akrawy and Burhan Dinler
• Kurdbûcircya bê ziman
  Nedret Bilici, xs4all.nl
  
• Kurdish Language Policy of Iran
  Amir Hasanpour, from Kurdish Times (1991)
  Hosted at kurdishacademy.org
  
• Kurdish Profile
  UCLA Language Materials Project
• Kurdish Academy of Language (kurdishacademy.org)

• Ladino
  M. Paul Lewis, ethnologue.com

• Evolution of the Maltese Language
  Joseph Felice Pace, aboutmalta.com
• Maltese
  M. Paul Lewis, ethnologue.com
• Survival Maltese
  Grazio Falcon, aboutmalta.com

• Persian Language Resources
  Columbia University Libraries
  

• Syriac (extinct language of Turkey)
  M. Paul Lewis, ethnologue.com
• Syriac (macrolanguage of Iraq)
  M. Paul Lewis, ethnologue.com

• Turkish Language Resources
  Columbia University Libraries