Beyond UMD
Applications for the Mayan Language School Online have closed. Please email lsc@umd.edu with any questions.
Engaging with non-academic audiences reflects a core value of the Language Science Center. All students and faculty affiliated with LSC take part in outreach activities.
Langscape is an interactive language map which provides information about thousands of languages worldwide.
Language is directly relevant to issues of public policy such as literacy, foreign-language education, communication disorders, and foreign affairs.
In 2016, the Maryland Language Science Center opened a research field station near the beautiful Lake Atitlán in the western highlands of Guatemala. This was the first of several planned international field stations, to support multi-disciplinary research involving local communities and languages.
The study of language is inherently international and crucial to solving global problems.
