Literature by country

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History of literature
by era

Ancient (corpora)

Bronze Age

* Ancient Egyptian
* Akkadian
* Elamite
* Hattic
* Hittite
* Hurro-Urartian
* Luwian
* Lydian
* Sumerian
* Ugarit

Classical

* Ancient Greek
* Ancient Hebrew
* Ancient Prakrit
* Aramaic
* Classical Chinese
* Classical Latin
* Parthian
* Phrygian
* Old Persian
* Old Tamil
* Sanskrit
* Syriac

Early medieval

* Arabic
* Armenian
* Bactrian
* Byzantine Greek
* Coptic
* Gandhari Prakrit
* Geʽez
* Georgian
* Japanese
* Kannada
* Korean
* Maharashtri Prakrit
* Pre-Proto-Mongolic
* Old Church Slavonic
* Old English
* Old German
* Old Khmer
* Old Malay
* Old Turkic
* Norse
* Pali
* Sabaic
* Saka
* Sogdian
* Tibetan
* Tocharian
* Welsh
* Irish

Medieval by century

* 10th
* 11th
* 12th
* 13th
* 14th

Early modern by century

* 15th
* 16th
* 17th

Modern by century

* 18th
* 19th

Contemporary by century

* 20th
* 21st

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This is a list of literature pages categorized by country, language, or cultural group. Sometimes these literatures will be called national literatures because they help define a national identity or provide a common reference point for that country's culture.

* Abkhaz literature
* Albanian literature
* Algerian literature
* American literature

See also

* African American literature
* Native American literature
* Southern literature
* Deaf American literature

* Arabic literature
* Argentine literature
* Armenian literature
* Australian literature
* Austrian literature
* Azerbaijani literature
* Babylonian literature and science
* Basque literature
* Belarusian literature
* Belgian literature
* Bengali literature
* Bohemian literature
* Brazilian literature
* Breton literature
* British literature
* Bulgarian literature
* Burmese Literature
* Canadian literature
* Catalan literature
* Chechen literature [ru]
* Chilean literature
* Chinese literature
* Cornish literature
* Crimean tatar literature
* Croatian literature
* Cuban literature
* Cypriot literature
* Czech literature
* Danish literature
* Dutch literature
* Ecuadorian literature
* Efik literature
* Egyptian literature
* English literature

See also

* Anglo-Norman literature
* Anglo-Saxon literature
* Anglo-Welsh literature

* Esperanto literature
* Estonian literature
* Ethiopian literature
* Filipino literature
* Finnish literature
* Flemish literature
* Francophone literature
* French literature
* Filipino literature
* Frisian literature
* Galician literature
* Georgian literature
* German literature
* Greek literature
* Hebrew literature
* Hindi literature
* Literature of Hong Kong
* Hungarian literature
* Icelandic literature
* Ilokano literature
* Indian literature
* Indonesian literature
* Irish literature
* Israeli literature
* Italian literature
* Japanese literature
* Jèrriais literature
* Kannada literature
* Kashmiri literature
* Kazakhstani literature
* Kurdish literature
* Korean literature
* Latin literature

See also

* Anglo-Latin literature
* Christian Latin literature

* Latvian literature
* Lithuanian literature
* Luxembourg literature
* Macedonian literature
* Malayalam literature
* Maltese literature
* Manx literature
* Marathi literature
* Mexican literature
* Moldovan literature
* Montenegrin literature
* Moroccan literature
* Nepali literature
* New Zealand literature
* Nigerian literature
* Norwegian literature
* Occitan literature
* Ossetian literature
* Pakistani literature
* Persian literature
* Peruvian literature
* Polish literature
* Portuguese literature
* Provençal literature
* Puerto Rican literature
* Quebec literature
* Romanian literature
* Russian literature
* Rwandan literature
* Sanskrit literature
* Scottish literature
* Serbian literature
* Sri Lankan literature
* Singaporean literature
* Saraiki literature
* Slovak literature
* Slovene literature
* Somali literature
* Serbian literature
* South African literature
* Spanish literature

See also

* Latin American literature

* Swahili literature
* Swedish literature
* Swiss literature
* Syriac literature
* Syrian literature
* Literature of Taiwan
* Tamil literature
* Tajik literature
* Telugu literature
* Thai literature
* Turkish literature
* Ukrainian literature
* Urdu literature
* Venezuelan literature
* Vietnamese literature
* Waray literature
* Welsh literature
* Yiddish literature
* Yoruba literature

Other

* Western literature

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