<langKnowledge>

<langKnowledge> (language knowledge) summarizes the state of a person's linguistic knowledge, either as prose or by a list of langKnown elements. [13.3.2.1. Personal Characteristics]

Module

namesdates

Attributes

tags

supplies one or more valid language tags for the languages specified

Status	Optional
Datatype	1–∞ occurrences of teidata.language separated by whitespace
Note	This attribute should be supplied only if the element contains no langKnown children. Its values are language tags as defined in RFC 4646 or its successor

Member of

lim.personMacro

Contained by

namesdates: person persona

May contain

core: p

linking: ab

namesdates: langKnown

Examples

<langKnowledge tags="en-GB fr">
<p>British English and French</p>
</langKnowledge>

<langKnowledge>
<langKnown tag="en-GB" level="H">British English</langKnown>
<langKnown tag="fr" level="M">French</langKnown>
</langKnowledge>

Source

Github

<elementSpec rend="change" module="namesdates" ident="langKnowledge">
   <gloss>language knowledge</gloss>
   <desc>summarizes the state of a person's linguistic knowledge, either as prose or by a list of <gi>langKnown</gi> elements.</desc>
   <classes/>
   <content>
      <sequence minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1">
         <elementRef key="precision" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
         <alternate minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1">
            <classRef key="model.pLike"/>
            <elementRef key="langKnown" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
         </alternate>
      </sequence>
   </content>
   <attList>
      <attDef ident="type" usage="opt" mode="change">
         <datatype>
            <dataRef key="teidata.enumerated"/>
         </datatype>
         <valList type="open" mode="add">
            <valItem ident="listening"/>
            <valItem ident="speaking"/>
            <valItem ident="reading"/>
            <valItem ident="writing"/>
         </valList>
      </attDef>
      <attDef ident="tags" usage="opt">
         <desc>supplies one or more valid language tags for the languages specified</desc>
         <datatype minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded">
            <dataRef key="teidata.language"/>
         </datatype>
      </attDef>
   </attList>
</elementSpec>