Glottopedia:Categorization

All Glottopedia articles should be categorized, as in the Wikipedia. All category names are in English, Glottopedia's default language.

There are four classes of categories (A-D). Each article should belong to one category of the classes A, B, and C (multiple categorization is possible in class C). In addition, each article can belong to any number of categories of class D.

Category class A: Languages: The language in which the article is written (two-letter abbreviation according to ISO 639).


 * Category:En (English)
 * Category:De (German)

Category class B: Article type


 * Category:DICT (Dictionary articles)
 * Category:BIOG (Biographical articles)
 * Category:LANG (Language articles)
 * Category:SURV (Survey articles)
 * Category:LING (Research articles)

Major categories can be assigned using templates.

Category class C: Major categories: The linguistic domain, the article refers to.

Here are some examples for major categories (a complete list can be found under Major categories):


 * acquisition
 * bilingualism
 * computational linguistics
 * diachrony
 * discourse analysis
 * lexicography
 * logic
 * morphology
 * onomastics
 * philosophy of language
 * phonetics and phonology
 * pragmatics
 * psycholinguistics
 * quantitative linguistics
 * semantics
 * sociolinguistics
 * syntax
 * writing

Category class D: Special categories

Special categories subdivide a major category. Up to now, Glottopedia has not come up with guidelines for special categories.

Other languages
German Glottopedia:Kategorien