language

• 15.100 bibliographies
• 15.200 general works; collections of general subjects
  • 15.210 special subjects, including particles
  • 5.215 criticism of ancient texts
  • 15.220 comparative linguistics, including Sino-Tibeto-Burmese and language families
• 15.300 system of writing, Chinese characters, also computer. For calligraphy see 17.700
  • 15.350 abbreviated characters (jiantizi), language (writing) reform, see also 15.550
  • 15.400 textbooks: wenyan (including old-fashioned Newspaper Chinese), also Sanzi Jing and Qianzi Wen, see also 15.600: wenyan grammar
  • 15.410 textbooks: baihua (including linguaphone etc.), correspondence, see also 15.610: baihua grammar
• 15.500 phonology, including ancient
  • 15.550 romanization, transcription, transliteration, for pinyin see also 15.530
• 15.600 grammar, wenyan
  • 15.610 grammar, baihua
• Dialects:
  • 15.700 Peking (Beijing) and Northern Mandarin
  • 15.705 Nanking (Nanjing) and Southern dialects
  • 15.710 Hakka
  • 15.720 Wu (Shanghai, Ningbo)
  • 15.730 Min (Fujian/ Fukien/ Hokkien, Amoy, Xiamen, Swatow, Taiwan)
  • 15.740 Yue (Yüeh, Cantonese)
  • 15.750 other dialects and dialects in general
• Dictionaries:
  • 15.800 Dutch
  • 15.810 English
  • 15.820 French
  • 15.830 German
  • 15.840 Japanese
  • 15.850 Russian
  • 15.860 other dictionaries
• 15.900 vocabularies phrases etc. technical and special dictionaries come under their main categories
• 15.1000 lexicography and indexing; loan words
• 15.1100 handbooks and reading aids eg. the Reader’s Manual
• 15.1200 aspects of transliteration
• 15.1300 other languages