DETAIL OF CLASSIFICATION ITEM

Classification: International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 97) - FIELDS

Abbreviation: ISCED97_OBORY Version: 1 Validity: 01.01.2008 - 09.09.9999 Family: Education

Language version: EN

Classification level: 3

Item: 223 - Native language

Item's explanatory note:

Mother tongue is the study of the native language, including the study of related
literature and linguistics. Programmes with the following main content are classified
here:

Creative writing
Home language
Languages, native
Mother tongue programmes
Sign language

Inclusions:

Mother tongue is study of a language taught as the mother tongue, even if the language
is not the national language of the country, e.g. programmes for immigrants in their
home language.

Exclusions:

National language programmes are excluded from this field if the language is taught as
a foreign or a second language, and are then included in 222 ‘Foreign languages’.
Programmes in literacy and numeracy are excluded from this field and included in field
080 ‘Literacy and numeracy’.

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Correspondences:
International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 97) - FIELDS - level 2 - Narrow fields	22	Humanities