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Literature in East Asian and African Languages

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Chinese 895.1
Add genre numbers followed by -01-09 as appropriate (i.e., Criticism of Chinese fiction: 895.1309).
Tibeto-Burman and Tibetan 895.4
Himalayan dialect literatures 895.49
Japanese 895.6
Add genre numbers followed by -01-09 as appropriate (i.e., a Japanese novel: 895.63).
Korean 895.7
  
Burmese 895.8
  
Thai (Siamese) 895.91
Lao 895.919
  
Annam-Muong 895.92
Vietnamese (Annamese) 895.922
  
Mon-Khmer (including Semang) 895.93
Cambodian 895.932
  
Munda (including Santali, Ho, Mundari, Gadaba) 895.95
  
African literatures 896
Add to 896 the numbers following 96 in "Languages" notation 961-965 from Table 6, v. 1, Dewey 19. (i.e., Ibo: 896.332; Yoruba: 896.333; Bantu: 896.39; Swahili: 896.392).

For Afro-Asiatic literatures see 892.