TEI Lex-0

— A baseline encoding for lexicographic data

12.1.67. <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]
Modulenamesdates — Specification
Attributes
tagsupplies a valid language tag for the language concerned.
StatusRequired
Datatypeteidata.language
Note

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

levela code indicating the person's level of knowledge for this language.
StatusOptional
Datatypeteidata.word
Contained by
namesdates: langKnowledge
May contain
dictionaries: lang
figures: figure
header: idno
tagdocs: ident
transcr: metamark
character data
Example
<langKnown tag="en-GBlevel="H">British English</langKnown>
<langKnown tag="frlevel="M">French</langKnown>
Example
<person sex="mrole="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

element langKnown
{
   att.global.attributes,
   att.datable.attributes,
   att.editLike.attributes,
   attribute tag { text },
   attribute level { text }?,
   macro.phraseSeq.limited
}