Library of Congress Classification:Class P -- Language and Literature

Class P: Language and Literature is a classification used by the Library of Congress classification

Library of Congress Classification

The Library of Congress Classification is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress. It is used by most research and academic libraries in the U.S. and several other countries; for example, Australia and Taiwan, R.O.C. It is not to be confused with the Library of...

system. This article outlines the subclasses of Class P

	P Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass P -- Philology linguistics Subclass P: Philology Linguistics is a classification used by the Library of Congress classification system under Class P -- Language and Literature. This article describes subclass P.- Contents :...	Philology Philology Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin... ; Linguistics Linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
	PA Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PA -- Greek language and literature Subclass PA: Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature is a classification used by the Library of Congress classification system under Class P -- Language and Literature. This article describes subclass PA.- Contents :...	Greek language Greek language Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;... and literature Greek literature Greek literature refers to writings composed in areas of Greek influence, typically though not necessarily in one of the Greek dialects, throughout the whole period in which the Greek-speaking people have existed.-Ancient Greek literature :... ; Latin Latin Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and... language and literature Latin literature Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings of the ancient Romans. In many ways, it seems to be a continuation of Greek literature, using many of the same forms...
	PB Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PB -- Modern languages and Celtic languages Subclass PB: Modern languages. Celtic languages is a classification used by the Library of Congress classification system under Class P -- Language and Literature. This article describes subclass PB.- Contents :- Sources :...	Modern language Modern language A modern language is any human language that is currently in use. The term is used in language education to distinguish between languages which are used for day-to-day communication and dead classical languages such as Latin, Attic Greek, Sanskrit, and Classical Chinese, which are studied for... s; Celtic languages Celtic languages The Celtic languages are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic"; a branch of the greater Indo-European language family...
	PC Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PC -- Romanic languages Subclass PC: Romanic languages is a classification used by the Library of Congress Classification system under Class P -- Language and Literature. This article describes subclass PC.- Contents :PC1–5498..........Romanic...	Romanic languages Romance languages The Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, more precisely of the Italic languages subfamily, comprising all the languages that descend from Vulgar Latin, the language of ancient Rome...
	PD Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PD -- Germanic languages Subclass PD: Germanic languages is a classification used by the Library of Congress classification system under Class P -- Language and Literature. This article describes subclass PD.- Contents :...	Germanic languages Germanic languages The Germanic languages constitute a sub-branch of the Indo-European language family. The common ancestor of all of the languages in this branch is called Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe...
	PE Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PE -- English language Subclass PE: English language is a classification used by the Library of Congress Classification system under Class P -- Language and Literature. This article describes subclass PE.- Contents :PE1–3729......English...	English language English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
	PF Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PF -- West Germanic languages Subclass PF: West Germanic languages is a classification used by the Library of Congress Classification system under Class P -- Language and Literature...	West Germanic languages West Germanic languages The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three traditional branches of the Germanic family of languages and include languages such as German, English, Dutch, Afrikaans, the Frisian languages, and Yiddish...
	PG Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PG -- Slavic, Baltic and Albanian languages Subclass PG: Slavic, Baltic and Albanian is a subclass in the Library of Congress classification system, under the more general heading Class P -- Language and Literature. This article describes the ranges of call numbers within subclass PG...	Slavic languages Slavic languages The Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.-Branches:Scholars traditionally divide Slavic... ; Baltic languages Baltic languages The Baltic languages are a group of related languages belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family and spoken mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe... ; Albanian language Albanian language Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...
	PH Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PH -- Uralic and Basque languages Subclass PH -- Uralic and Basque languages is a classification used by the Library of Congress Classification system under Class P -- Language and Literature. This article describes subclass PH, which covers the Uralic languages as well as Basque.-Contents:...	Uralic languages Uralic languages The Uralic languages constitute a language family of some three dozen languages spoken by approximately 25 million people. The healthiest Uralic languages in terms of the number of native speakers are Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Mari and Udmurt... ; Basque language Basque language Basque is the ancestral language of the Basque people, who inhabit the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in northeastern Spain and southwestern France. It is spoken by 25.7% of Basques in all territories...
	PJ Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PJ -- Oriental philology and literature Subclass PJ: Oriental philology and languages is a classification used by the Library of Congress classification system under Class P -- Language and Literature...	Oriental philology and literature
	PK Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PK -- Indo-Iranian philology and literature Subclass PK: Indo-Iranian philology and literature is a classification used by the Library of Congress classification system under Class P -- Language and Literature...	Indo-Iranian philology and literature
	PL	Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
	PM	Hyperborean, Indian, and artificial languages
	PN Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PN -- General Literature This is a classification used by the Library of Congress Classification system under Class P -- Language and Literature. This article describes subclass PN.-Contents:PN1-6790Literature 1-9Periodicals20-30 Societies...	Literature Literature Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources... (General)
	PQ	French literature French literature French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written in French language, by citizens... - Italian literature Italian literature Italian literature is literature written in the Italian language, particularly within Italy. It may also refer to literature written by Italians or in Italy in other languages spoken in Italy, often languages that are closely related to modern Italian.... - Spanish literature Spanish literature Spanish literature generally refers to literature written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the state of Spain... - Portuguese literature Portuguese literature This is a survey of Portuguese literature.The Portuguese language was developed gradually from the Vulgar language spoken in the countries which formed part of the Roman Empire and, both in morphology and syntax, it represents an organic transformation of Latin without the direct intervention of...
	PR Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PR -- English literature Subclass PR: English Literature is a classification used by the Library of Congress Classification system under Class P -- Language and Literature. This article describes subclass PR.- Contents :...	English literature English literature English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....
	PS Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PS -- American Literature Subclass PS: American Literature is a classification used by the Library of Congress classification system under Class P -- Language and Literature. This article describes subclass PS...	American literature American literature American literature is the written or literary work produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies. For more specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States. During its early history, America was a series of British...
	PT Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PT -- Germanic literature Subclass PT: German literature - Dutch literature - Flemish literature since 1830 - Afrikaans literature - Scandinavian literature - Old Norse literature: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian - Modern Icelandic literature - Faroese literature - Danish literature - Norwegian literature - Swedish...	German literature German literature German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there... - Dutch literature Dutch literature Dutch literature comprises all writings of literary merit written through the ages in the Dutch language, a language which currently has around 23 million native speakers... - Flemish literature Flemish literature Flemish literature is literature from Flanders, historically a region comprising parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Until the early 19th century, this literature was regarded as an integral part of Dutch literature... since 1830 - Scandinavian literature - Old Norse literature Old Norse literature Old Norse literature refers to the vernacular literature of the Scandinavian peoples up to ca. 1350. It chiefly consists of Icelandic writings.See:* Old Norse poetry* Edda* Norse saga* Icelanders' sagas* Kings' sagas* Legendary sagas... : Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian — Modern Icelandic literature Icelandic literature Icelandic literature refers to literature written in Iceland or by Icelandic people. It is best known for the sagas written in medieval times, starting in the 13th century. As Icelandic and Old Norse are almost the same, and because Icelandic works constitute most of Old Norse literature, Old Norse... - Faroese literature Faroese literature In the Middle Ages many poems and stories were handed down orally. These works were split into the following divisions: sagnir , ævintyr and kvæði . These were eventually written down in the 19th century.In the 13th century the Færeyinga saga was written in Iceland... - Danish literature Danish literature Danish literature, a subset of Scandinavian literature, stretches back to the Middle Ages. Of special note across the centuries are the historian Saxo Grammaticus, the playwright Ludvig Holberg, the storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, and Karen Blixen who... - Norwegian literature Norwegian literature Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature starts with the pagan Eddaic poems and skaldic verse of the 9th and 10th centuries with poets such as Bragi Boddason and Eyvindr Skáldaspillir... - Swedish literature Swedish literature Swedish literature refers to literature written in the Swedish language or by writers from Sweden.The first literary text from Sweden is the Rök Runestone, carved during the Viking Age circa 800 AD. With the conversion of the land to Christianity around 1100 AD, Sweden entered the Middle Ages,...
	PZ Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PZ -- Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Subclass PZ: Fiction and juvenile belles lettres is a classification used by the Library of Congress classification system under Class P -- Language and Literature. This article describes subclass PZ.- Contents :...	Fiction Fiction Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,... and juvenile belles lettres

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