Literature in East Asian and African languages are classed according to language, then cuttered and workmarked normally.
| Chinese Add genre numbers followed by -01-09 as appropriate (i.e., Criticism of Chinese fiction: 895.1309). |
895.1 |
| Tibeto-Burman and Tibetan | 895.4 |
| Himalayan dialect literatures | 895.49 |
| Japanese Add genre numbers followed by -01-09 as appropriate (i.e., a Japanese novel:895.63). |
895.6 |
| 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 |
Add to base number 896 the numbers following T6--96 in notation T6--961-T6--965 from Table 6, e.g., Songhai literature 896.5, Swahili literature 896.392.
| Commonly Used Classes | |
| African literatures - general | 896 |
| Wolof | 896.3214 |
| Fula/Fulani | 896.322 |
| Ibo/Igbo | 896.332 |
| Yoruba | 896.333 |
| Ewe | 896.3374 |
| Gã | 896.3378 |
| Akan, Fante, Twi | 896.3385 |
| Bambara | 896.3452 |
| Mende | 896.348 |
| Sango | 896.3616 |
| Efik | 896.3642 |
| Bantu | 896.39 |
| Bemba | 896.3915 |
| Nyanja, Chichewa/Chewa | 896.3918 |
| Swahili | 896.392 |
| Kongo/Koongo | 896.3931 |
| Mbundu/Kimbundu | 896.3932 |
| Rwanda/Kinyarwanda | 896.39461 |
| Rundi | 896.39465 |
| Kikuyu | 896.3954 |
| Ganda/Luganda | 896.3957 |
| Duala | 896.3962 |
| Lingala | 896.39686 |
| Shona | 896.3975 |
| Venda/Tshivenda | 896.3976 |
| Northern Sotho | 896.39771 |
| Southern Sotho | 896.39772 |
| Tswana | 896.39775 |
| Tsonga | 896.3978 |
| Xhosa | 896.3985 |
| Zulu | 896.3986 |
| Swazi (siSwati) | 896.3987 |
| Ndebele (South Africa) | 896.3989 |
| Afrikaans | 839.36 |
| Malagasy | 899.3 |