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
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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