Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PG -- Slavic, Baltic and Albanian languages
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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. In this classification system, the numerical part of a book's call number places it within the subject hierarchy described below; for example, the 1999 Slovo edition of Leo Tolstoy
's Anna Karenina
has the call number "PG 3365 .A6 1999", placing it in the category of "Tolstoi" (PG 3365-3417), in "1800-1870" (PG 3320-3447), in "Individual authors and works" (PG 3300-3493), in "Russian literature" (PG 2900-3698).
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, under the more general heading Class P -- Language and Literature
Library of Congress Classification:Class P -- Language and Literature
Class P: Language and Literature is a classification used by the Library of Congress classification system. This article outlines the subclasses of Class PPPhilology; LinguisticsPAGreek language and literature; Latin language and literature...
. This article describes the ranges of call numbers within subclass PG. In this classification system, the numerical part of a book's call number places it within the subject hierarchy described below; for example, the 1999 Slovo edition of Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...
's Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger...
has the call number "PG 3365 .A6 1999", placing it in the category of "Tolstoi" (PG 3365-3417), in "1800-1870" (PG 3320-3447), in "Individual authors and works" (PG 3300-3493), in "Russian literature" (PG 2900-3698).
Contents
- PG
- 1-9665.............Slavic. Baltic. Albanian
- 1-7948............SlavicSlavic languagesThe 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...
- 1-499............Slavic philology and languages (General)
- 500-585..........Slavic literature (General)
- 601-716..........Church Slavic
- 771-799..........Bulgarian Church Slavic
- 801-1146.........BulgarianBulgarian languageBulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...
- 1151-1199........MacedonianMacedonian languageMacedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...
- 1201-1696........Serbo-CroatianSerbo-Croatian languageSerbo-Croatian or Serbo-Croat, less commonly Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian , is a South Slavic language with multiple standards and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro...
- 1801-1962........SlovenianSlovenian languageSlovene or Slovenian is a South Slavic language spoken by approximately 2.5 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia. It is the first language of about 1.85 million people and is one of the 23 official and working languages of the European Union...
- 2001-2826........Russian languageRussian languageRussian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
- 2830-2847........BelarusianBelarusian languageThe Belarusian language , sometimes referred to as White Russian or White Ruthenian, is the language of the Belarusian people...
- 2900-3698........Russian literatureRussian literatureRussian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union...
- 2900-3190.......History and criticism
- 2900-2998......General
- 3001-3026......Special periods
- 3041-3065......Poetry
- 3071-3089......Drama
- 3091-3099......Prose
- 3100-3155......Folk literature (including texts)
- 3199-3299.......Collections
- 3199-3205......General
- 3211-3219......Translations
- 3223-3228......Special periods
- 3230-3238......Poetry
- 3240-3255......Drama
- 3260-3299......Prose
- 3300-3490.......Individual authors and works
- 3300-3308......Early to 1700
- 3310-3319......18th century
- 3312..........Derzhavin
- 3314..........KaramzinNikolai Mikhailovich KaramzinNikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin was a Russian writer, poet, historian, and critic. He is best remembered for his History of the Russian State, a 12-volume national history.- Early life :...
- 3316..........LomonosovMikhail LomonosovMikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries was the atmosphere of Venus. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art,...
- 3318..........Sumarokov
- 3320-3447......1800-1870
- 3325-3328.....Dostoevskii
- 3332-3335.....GogolNikolai GogolNikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...
- 3340-3359.....PushkinAleksandr PushkinAlexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature....
- 3365-3417.....TolstoiLeo TolstoyLev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...
- 3420-3445.....TurgenevIvan TurgenevIvan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century...
- 3450-3470......1870-1917
- 3452..........Andreev
- 3455-3458.....Gor'kiiMaxim GorkyAlexei Maximovich Peshkov , primarily known as Maxim Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist.-Early years:...
- 3475-3476......1917-1960
- 3477-3490......1961-2000
- 3491.2-3493.96....2001-
- 3500-3505.......Provincial, local, etc.
- 3515-3550.......Outside the Russian Federation
- 3651-3698.......Special subjects
- 2900-3190.......History and criticism
- 3801-3987........UkrainianUkrainian languageUkrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
- 3990.............Carpatho-RusynRusyn languageRusyn , also known in English as Ruthenian, is an East Slavic language variety spoken by the Rusyns of Central Europe. Some linguists treat it as a distinct language and it has its own ISO 639-3 code; others treat it as a dialect of Ukrainian...
- 4001-5146........CzechCzech languageCzech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
- 5201-5546........SlovakSlovak languageSlovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...
- 5631-5689........Sorbian (Wendic)
- 6001-7446........PolishPolish languagePolish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
- 7900-7925........Other Slavic dialects
- 8001-9146.........BalticBaltic languagesThe 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...
- 8201-8208........Old PrussianOld Prussian languagePrussian is an extinct Baltic language, once spoken by the inhabitants of the original territory of Prussia in an area of what later became East Prussia and eastern parts of...
- 8501-8772........LithuanianLithuanian languageLithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they...
- 8801-9146........LatvianLatvian languageLatvian is the official state language of Latvia. It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish. There are about 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad. The Latvian language has a relatively large number of non-native speakers, atypical for a small language...
- 8201-8208........Old Prussian
- 9501-9665.........AlbanianAlbanian languageAlbanian 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...
- 1-7948............Slavic
- 1-9665.............Slavic. Baltic. Albanian