BISAC Subject Headings List

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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

FOR031000   FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Indigenous Languages in 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

                                  FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Native American Languages see Indigenous Languages in 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

   

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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