page_title: Library of Congress Classification
section_title: Class P – Language and Literature
hierarchical_section_title: Library of Congress Classification / Classification / Class P – Language and Literature
caption_attribution_description: English: Ryerson University Library
context_page_description: 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.
  LCC should not be confused with LCCN, the system of Library of Congress Control Numbers assigned to all books, which also defines URLs of their online catalog entries, such as "82006074" and "http://lccn.loc.gov/82006074". The Classification is also distinct from Library of Congress Subject Headings, the system of labels such as "Boarding schools" and "Boarding schools—Fiction" that describe contents systematically. Finally, the classifications may be distinguished from the call numbers assigned to particular copies of books in the collection, such as "PZ7.J684 Wj 1982 FT MEADE Copy 1" where the classification is "PZ7.J684 Wj 1982".
  The classification was invented by Herbert Putnam in 1897, just before he assumed the librarianship of Congress. With advice from Charles Ammi Cutter, it was influenced by his Cutter Expansive Classification, the Dewey Decimal System, and the Putnam Classification System.
context_section_description: Subclass P – Philology. Linguistics
  Subclass PA – Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature
  Subclass PB – Modern languages. Celtic languages and literature
  Subclass PC – Romanic languages
  Subclass PD – Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages
  Subclass PE – English language
  Subclass PF – West Germanic languages
  Subclass PG – Slavic languages and literature. Baltic languages. Albanian language
  Subclass PH – Uralic languages. Basque language
  Subclass PJ – Oriental languages and literatures
  Subclass PK – Indo-Iranian languages and literature
  Subclass PL – Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
  Subclass PM – Hyperborean, Native American, and artificial languages
  Subclass PN – Literature (General)
  Subclass PQ – French literature – Italian literature – Spanish literature – Portuguese literature
  Subclass PR – English literature
  Subclass PS – American 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 literature
  Subclass PZ – Fiction and juvenile belles lettres
caption: The PN-subclass shelf.
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