Appendix K. Initial Articles

Appendix K. Initial Articles

1. Initial articles may be input as the first element in the following fields :

222	440
245	490
250	5XX

2. The following fields contains an indicator for 0 to 9 non-filing characters; however, CONSER practice is not to input articles in these fields:

130	630
240	730
242	830

3. Initial articles are not input in the following fields because there is no indicator value to accommodate them:

210

246

760-787

4. For corporate, conference, and geographic heading fields, omit the initial article except when the heading begins with a personal or geographic name and the intent is to file on the article. The same is true for initial articles at the beginning of subfield $a.

INITIAL ARTICLES IN VARIOUS LANGUAGE

a	English, Gallegan, Hungarian, Portuguese, romanian, Scots, Yiddish	a'	Gaelic
al	Romanian	al-	Arabic, Baluchi, Brahui, Panjabi (Perso-Arabic script), Persian, Turkish, Urdu
am	Gaelic	an	English, Gaelic, Irish, Scots, Yiddish
an t-	Gaelic, Irish	ane	Scots
ang	Tagalog	ang mga	Tagalog
as	Gallegan, Portuguese	az	Hungarian
bat	Basque	bir	Turkish
d'	English	da	Shetland English
das	German	de	Danish, Dutch, English, Friesian, Norwegian, Swedish
dei	Norwegian	dem	German
den	Danish, German, Norwegian, Swedish	der	German, Yiddish
des	German	det	Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
di	Yiddish	die	Afrikaans, German, Yiddish
dos	Yiddish	e	Norwegian
'e	Friesian	een	Dutch
eene	Dutch	egy	Hungarian
ei	Norwegian	ein	German, Norwegian
eine	German	einem	German
einen	German	einer	German
eines	German	eit	Norwegian
el	Catalan, Spanish	el-	Arabic
els	Catalan	en	Cataloan, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
et	Danish, Norwegian	ett	Swedish
eyn	Yiddish	eyne	Yiddish
gl'	Italian	gli	Italian
ha-	Hebrew	hai	Classical Greek, Greek
he	Hawaiian	he	Classical Greek, Greek
he-	Hebrew	heis	Greek
hen	Greek	hena	Greek
henas	Greek	het	Dutch
hin	Icelandic	hina	Icelandic
hinar	Icelandic	hinir	Icelandic
hinn	Icelandic	hinna	Icelandic
hinnar	Icelandic	hinni	Icelandic
hins	Icelandic	hinu	Icelandic
hinum	Icelandic	hio	Icelandic
ho	Classical Greek, Greek	ho-	Hebrew
hoi	Classical Greek, Greek	i	Italian
ih'	Provencal/Langue d'oc	il	Italian, Provencal/Langue d'oc
il-	Maltese	in	Friesian
it	Friesian	ka	Hawaiian
ke	Hawaiian	l'	Catalan, French, Italian, Provencal/Langue d'oc
l-	Maltese	la	Catalan, Espertano, French, Italian, Provencal/Langue d'oc, Spanish
las	Provencal/Langue d'oc, Spanish	le	French, Italian, Provencal/Langue d'oc
les	Catalan, French, Provencal/Langue d'oc	lh	Provencal/Langue d'oc
lhi	Provencal/Langue d'oc	li	Provencal/Langue d'oc
lis	Provencal/Langue d'oc	lo	Italian, Provencal/Langue d'oc, Spanish
los	Provencal/Langue d'oc, Spanish	lou	Provencal/Langue d'oc
lu	Provencal/Langue d'oc	mga	Tagalog
mga	Tagalog	mia	Greek
'n	Afrikaans, Dutch, Friesian	na	Gaelic, Hawaiian, Irish
na h-	Gaelic, Irish	ny	Malagasy
'o	Neapolitan	o	Gallegan, Hawaiian, Portuguese, Romanian
os	Portuguese	'r	Icelandic
's	German	sa	Tagalog
sa mga	Tagalog	si	Tagalog
sina	Tagalog	't	Dutch, Friesian
ta	Classical Greek, Greek	tais	Classical Greek
tas	Classical Greek	te	Classical Greek
ten	Classical Greek, Greek	tes	Classical Greek, Greek
the	English	to	Classical Greek, Greek
to	Classical Greek	tois	Classical Greek
ton	Classical Greek, Greek	ton	Classical Greek, Greek
tou	Classical Greek, Greek	um	Portuguese
uma	Portuguese	un	Catalan, French, Italian, Provencal/Langue d'oc, Romanian, Spanish
un'	Italian	una	Catalan, Italian, Provencal/Langue d'oc, Spanish
une	French	unei	Romanian
unha	Gallegan	uno	Italian, Provencal/Langue d'oc
uns	Provencal/Langue d'oc	unui	Romanian
us	Provencal/Langue d'oc	y	Welsh
ye	English	yr	Welsh

See also:

Section F. Appendices