TEI P4 Beta: Reference Documentation

`<language>` | characterizes a single language or sublanguage used within a text.
Attributes: |
`id` | specifies the identifier for the writing system declaration for this language (e.g. eng, fra, deu)
| Datatype: ID
| Values: should usually be a language identifier from ISO 639.
| Default: #IMPLIED
`wsd` | specifies the entity containing the writing system declaration used for representing texts in this language.
| Datatype: ENTITY
| Values: must be the name of an entity containing a full writing system declaration
| Default: #IMPLIED
Note | The entity containing the writing system declaration will typically be an external file; it must be declared in the DTD.
`usage` | specifies the approximate percentage (by volume) of the text which uses this language.
| Datatype: NUMBER
| Values: a whole number between 1 and 100
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example

    <language wsd=LA usage=100>Pig Latin

Note
Tagset auxiliary tag set for TEI headers
Class
Filename `teihdr2`
Content: Particularly for sublanguages, an informal prose characterization should be supplied as content for the element in addition to the specification implied by the WSD
Parents langUsage writingSystemDeclaration
Children #PCDATA abbr add address app att c caesura cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del distinct emph expan foreign formula fw geogName gi gloss handShift hi lang link m measure mentioned name num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar persName phr placeName ptr ref reg restore rs s seg sic soCalled space supplied tag term time timeRange timeStruct title unclear val w xptr xref
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT language      - O  (%phrase.seq)                      >
    <!ATTLIST language           %a.analysis
                                 %a.linking
                                 %a.terminology
              n                  CDATA               #IMPLIED
              lang               IDREF               %INHERITED

              rend               CDATA               #IMPLIED
              id                 ID                  #IMPLIED
              wsd                ENTITY              #IMPLIED
              usage              NUMBER              #IMPLIED       >

See 5.4.2

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