LANGUAGE

  Description:
    identifies the language being described in the writing
        system declaration.
  Attributes:
        iso639:  gives the standard language code from ISO 639.
        Data type:  CDATA
        Value:  any two- or three-letter code included included in ISO
              639; if the language is not included in the list in ISO 639,
              the value should be given as the empty string.
        Default value:  #REQUIRED
        This attribute is required.
  Example:
             <language iso639=''>Various</language>
             <language iso639=GRC>Classical Greek</language>
  Remarks:  In general, the "language" associated with a given writing
        system declaration will be a natural language; it may however be a
        dialect, an artificial language, or some other semiotic system
        conveniently treated as a language.
           The content of the <language> element is a description in prose
        of what language the WSD describes.  Usually this will simply be
        the conventional name of the language; more information may how-
        ever be included as needed.
           Specialized writing system declarations which document a public
        character set or entity set suitable for encoding several languag-
        es, and which are intended for use as a base component within oth-
        er language-specific writing system declarations, should identify
        the <language> to which they apply as "Various".  Such writing
        systems should not be used directly by encoded texts; they should
        be named only in the <baseWSD> element of language-specific writ-
        ing system declarations.
  Part:  auxiliary tag set for writing system declarations
  Member of classes:
  DTD file:  teiwsd2
  Data description:  May contain character data only.
  May occur within:  langUsage writingSystemDeclaration
  May contain:  #PCDATA
  Declaration:
       <!ELEMENT language      - O  (#PCDATA)                          >
       <!ATTLIST language           %a.global
                 iso639             CDATA               #REQUIRED      >
  Discussed in 25.2, "Identifying the Language," on page 43.
  Discussed in 25.1, "Overall Structure of Writing System Declaration," on
       page 43.
  This tag is required.

Content

• #PCDATA
• abbr
• add
• address
• anchor
• code
• corr
• date
• del
• emph
• foreign
• formula
• gap
• gi
• gloss
• hi
• ident
• kw
• mentioned
• name
• num
• orig
• ptr
• ref
• reg
• rs
• s
• seg
• sic
• socalled
• term
• time
• title
• unclear
• xptr
• xref

Tag Minimization

Open Tag: REQUIRED
Close Tag: OPTIONAL

Parent Elements

• langusage