TEI: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange

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<langKnown>

<langKnown> (language known) summarizes the state of a person's linguistic competence, i.e., knowledge of a single language. [16.2.2 The Participant Description]
Module namesdates — Names, Dates, People, and Places
Attributes
tag tag⚓︎ supplies a valid language tag for the language concerned.
Status Required
Datatype teidata.language
Note

The value for this attribute should be a language ‘tag’ as defined in BCP 47.

level level⚓︎ a code indicating the person's level of knowledge for this language.
Status Optional
Datatype teidata.word
Contained by
namesdates: langKnowledge
Example
<langKnown tag="en-GB" level="H">British English</langKnown>
<langKnown tag="fr" level="M">French</langKnown>
Example
<person sex="m" role="speaker collaborator">
<!-- other details omitted -->
<langKnowledge>
<langKnown tag="mix">Mixtepec-Mixtec</langKnown>
<langKnown tag="en">English</langKnown>
<langKnown tag="es">Spanish</langKnown>
</langKnowledge>
</person>
Content model
<content>
<macroRef key="macro.phraseSeq.limited"/>
</content>
Schema Declaration
<rng:element name="langKnown">
<rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.global.analytic.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.global.change.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.global.facs.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.global.linking.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.global.rendition.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.global.responsibility.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.global.source.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.datable.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.datable.custom.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.datable.iso.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.datable.w3c.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.editLike.attributes"/>
<rng:attribute name="tag">
<rng:ref name="teidata.language"/>
</rng:attribute>
<rng:optional>
<rng:attribute name="level">
<rng:ref name="teidata.word"/>
</rng:attribute>
</rng:optional>
<rng:ref name="macro.phraseSeq.limited"/>
</rng:element>
element langKnown
{
 att.global.attributes,
 att.global.analytic.attributes,
 att.global.change.attributes,
 att.global.facs.attributes,
 att.global.linking.attributes,
 att.global.rendition.attributes,
 att.global.responsibility.attributes,
 att.global.source.attributes,
 att.datable.attributes,
 att.datable.custom.attributes,
 att.datable.iso.attributes,
 att.datable.w3c.attributes,
 att.editLike.attributes,
 attribute tag { teidata.language },
 attribute level { teidata.word }?,
 macro.phraseSeq.limited
}

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