BISAC Subject Headings List
Foreign Language Study
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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 |
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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 |
FOR031000 |
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Indigenous Languages of the Americas |
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 |
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Native American Languages see Indigenous Languages of the Americas |
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 |
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