LINGUA is a student run linguistics organization at The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Lingua hosts lectures most semesters in linguistics and related fields given by UTA  Dept. of Linguistics and TESOL, GIAL faculty and other invited scholars. Moreover, Lingua organizes the annual student linguistics conference at UTA (UTASCILT) with linguistic scholars from around the world. Lingua encourages, supports, and fosters the study of lesser studied languages of the world, such as Akposso, Kam, Kadai, Kurdish, Thai, Hausa, Bai, Bulgarian, Vietnamese, Mixe-Zoque, Tamil, Panjabi, Sinhala, Sanskrit, Greek, Hebrew, Angas, Yi, Taiwanese, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin and Albanian. Lingua's past and current members have conducted research in Albania, Papua New Guinea, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Liberia, India, Pakistan, Australia, Mexico, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, China, Korea, Japan, Russia and all corners of the globe!