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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY

Use subjects in this section for works about the languages specified, whether these works are of an instructional, historical, or linguistic nature. Do not use subjects in this section to indicate the language of a work: works should be classified based on their subject content without regard to the language in which they are written (of course, if a work is about a language and written in that language, a subject in this section should be assigned).

FOR000000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General
FOR001000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / African Languages (see also Swahili)
FOR033000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Ancient Languages (see also Latin)
FOR002000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Arabic
	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Australian Languages see Oceanic & Australian Languages
FOR034000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Baltic Languages
FOR029000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Celtic Languages
FOR003000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Chinese
FOR035000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Creole Languages
FOR036000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Czech
FOR004000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Danish
FOR006000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Dutch
FOR007000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language
FOR037000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Finnish
FOR008000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / French
FOR009000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / German
FOR010000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Greek (Modern)
FOR011000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Hebrew
FOR038000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Hindi
FOR012000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Hungarian
FOR030000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Indic Languages
FOR013000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Italian
FOR014000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Japanese
FOR015000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Korean
FOR016000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Latin
FOR017000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Miscellaneous
FOR005000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Multi-Language Dictionaries
FOR018000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Multi-Language Phrasebooks
FOR031000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Native American Languages
FOR039000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Norwegian
FOR032000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Oceanic & Australian Languages
FOR045000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Old & Middle English
FOR040000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Persian
FOR019000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Polish
FOR020000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Portuguese
FOR041000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Romance Languages (Other)
FOR021000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Russian
FOR022000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Scandinavian Languages (Other)
FOR023000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Serbian & Croatian
FOR024000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Slavic Languages (Other)
FOR025000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)
FOR026000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Spanish
FOR042000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Swahili
FOR043000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Swedish
FOR027000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Turkish & Turkic Languages
FOR044000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Vietnamese
FOR028000	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Yiddish

If your title does not have subject content, i.e. a blank book, please use the Non-Classifiable term below. Otherwise, use the Subject/General term in the closest descriptive area.

NON000000 NON-CLASSIFIABLE

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