Language "categories" (was: undergraduate >Honors in Russian)

[Brewer, Michael]

All,

All,

Here is an article with the table in it. It is on page 28.   It is the
Language Difficulty Category system (LDC) created by the Defense Language
Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC)

http://www.dliflc.edu/Academics/content/amaterials/all/ALLissues/Vol9%20for%
20Web-MasterNew.pdf

Here it is in text (from another location with a few more languages thrown
in):

Category I

Afrikaans (AA)
Danish (DA)
Dutch (DU)
French (FR)
Haitian-Creole (HC)
Italian (JT)
        Sardinian (JK)
        Neapolitan (JM)
        Sicilian (JS


Norwegian (NR)
Portuguese (PY)
        Brazilian (PQ)
        European (PT)
Spanish (QB)
        American (LA)
        Caribbean (QC)
        Castilian (SR)
        Creole (SS)
Swedish (SY)
Taki-Taki (TG)

Category II

German (GM)
Indonesian (JN)
Malay (ML)
Romanian/Rumanian (RQ)
        (includes Moldavian)

Category III

Albanian (AB)
Amharic (AC)
Armenian (AR)
Azerbaijani/Azeri (AX)
Bashkir (BP)
Basque (BQ)
Belorussian/Byelorussian (BL)
Bemba (BM)
Bengali/Bangla (BN)
Bikol/Bicol/Vicol (CG)
Bulgarian (BU)
Burmese (BY)
Cambodian/Khmer (CA)
Czech (CX)
Dari/Persian-Afghan/Persian-Dari (PG)
Divehi/Maldivian (DV)
Estonian (ES)
Farsi/Persian-Farsi (PF)
Finnish (FJ)
Georgian (GG)
Greek (GR)
Hausa (HS)
Hebrew (HE


Hindi (HJ)
Hungarian (HU)
Ilocan (JL)
Kachin (KH)
Karen (KC)
Kazakh (KE)
Kinyarwanda (KL)
Kirghiz/Kirgiz (KM)
Kurdish (KU)
Lahu (LM)
Laotian/Lao (LC)
Latvian (LE)
Lingala/Ngala (LJ)
Lithuanian (LT)
Macedonian (MA)
Malagasy (MG)
Maranao (LY)
Miskito (NM)
Mongolian (MV)
Nepali/Nepalese (NE)
Nyanja/Chinyanja (NY)
Ossetic (QS)
Pampangan (QV)
Polish (PL)
Punjabi (PJ)
Pushtu/Pashto (PU)
Rade/Rhade (RH)
Russian (RU)
Serbo-Croatian (SC)
Shan (SF)
Shona (SH)
Singhalese/Sinhalese (SJ)
Slovak (SK)
Slovenian (SL)
Somali (SM)
Swahili (SW)
Taik/Tadjik/Tadzhik (TB)
Tagalog/Filipino/Pilipino (TA)
Tamil (TC)
Tatar (TM)
Telegu/Telugu (TE)
Thai (TH)
Tibetan (TJ)
Tigrinya (TL)
Turkish (TU


Turkmen/Turkoman (UB)
Uighur (UJ)
Ukrainian (UK)
Urdu (UR)
Uzbek (UX)
Vietnamese (VN)
        Central (VC)
        Hanoi (VN)
        Saigon (VS)
Visayan (VY)
        Cebuano (VB)
        Hiligaynon (VH)
WA (WV)
Xhosa (WH)
Yoruba (YQ)
Zulu (XU)

Category IV

Arabic (AZ)
        Algerian (AM)
        Egyptian (AE)
        Gulf
                Iraqi (DG)
                Libyan (AL)
                Modern Standard (AD)
                Moroccan (BS)
                Saudi (AN)
                Sudanese (AV)
                Syrian (AP)
                Tunisian (BW)
                Yemeni-Adeni (AU)
Chinese (CZ)
        Cantonese (CC)
        Cha'o Chou/Swatow (YE)
        Fuchow/North Min (CQ)
        Fukienese/Min (CF)
        Hakka (CH)
        Mandarin-Yunnanese (CM)
        South Min (CD)
        Wu (CS)
Japanese (JA)
Korean (KP)


Michael Brewer
Slavic Studies, German Studies & Media Arts Librarian
University of Arizona Library A210
1510 E. University
P.O. Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721
Voice: 520.307.2771
Fax: 520.621.9733
brewerm at u.library.arizona.edu

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