Variant of CIP 2000 - Primary groupings

03 - Humanities

16. - Aboriginal and Foreign Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

This series comprises instructional programs that focus on foreign languages and literatures, the humanistic and scientific study of linguistics, and the provision of professional interpretation and translation services.

16.10 - Aboriginal Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

This subseries comprises instructional program class 16.1001.

16.1001 - Aboriginal Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the languages native to the Western Hemisphere. These programs include courses in linguistic philology; oral and written literatures; Inuit and Aleut languages; Hawaiian (Polynesian language family); North American language families such as Algonkian (Arapaho, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Cree, Micmac, Ojibwa, and others), Athabascan (Apache, Chipewyan, Kiowa, Navajo, Na-Dene, and others), Siouan (Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Osage, Winnebago, and others), Muskogean (Choctaw, Creek, and others), Iroquoian (Cherokee, Mohawk, Oneida, Senecan, and others); Yuman; Mayan (Classical Mayan, Quiché, Huastec, and others); Zapotecan (Zapotec, Mixtec, Otomi, Popolacan, and others), and Uto-Aztecan (Hopi, Shoshone, Zuñi, Nahuatl, and others); South American language families such as Andean-Equatorial (Quechua, Aymará, Tupí, Guaraní, Arawak, Island Carib, and others); Ge-Pano-Carib (Carib and others); and Macro-Chibchan (Chibcha and others); and other minor languages.

• Example Program Names:

  • Aboriginal language
  • Cree language
  • Cree language studies
  • Cree linguistics
  • Dakota language studies
  • First Nations language
  • Native language
  • Native language studies
  • Saulteaux language studies

• Exclusion

  • Aboriginal studies(05.0202)
  • Native studies(05.0202)