COMARC/A Format for Authorities Data

PDFCOMARC/ADecember2019

101 Language of the entity

This field contains coded data relating to the language or languages used by the entity identified in field 2XX.

Subfields & repeatability

FIELD/SUBFIELDREPEATABILITY
101Language of the entitynr
aLanguage used by the entityr

Indicators

Indicator values are not defined.

SUBFIELDS

101a Language used by the entity

This subfield contains a three-character code for the language (in accordance with ISO 639-2) in which a person, family or corporate body expresses themselves (writes, translates, etc.) or the code for the language of an expression of a work.

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340BIOGRAPHY AND ACTIVITY NOTE

EXAMPLES

  1. 100⊔⊔ba cfre gba
    101⊔⊔aeng
    152⊔⊔aAFNOR
    200⊔1aMaclean bIan f19..-.... cexpert auprès de l'UNESCO
  2. 100⊔⊔ba cfre gba
    101⊔⊔afre
    152⊔⊔aAFNOR
    200⊔1aMasson bAndré f1930-....
    (André Masson translates works from English or from German into French.)
  3. 100⊔⊔ba cfre gba
    101⊔⊔amul
    152⊔⊔aAFNOR
    21012aCongrès européen de systémique d1 f1989 eLausanne, Suisse
  4. 100⊔⊔ba cfre gba
    101⊔⊔amul
    152⊔⊔aAFNOR
    21012aStamperia Camerale cRome, Italie
    (Stamperia Camerale is a printing company created in 1589.)
  5. 100⊔⊔ba cfre gba
    101⊔⊔afre
    152⊔⊔aAFNOR
    220⊔⊔aHugo (familie)
  6. 100⊔⊔ba cfre gba
    101⊔⊔amyn
    152⊔⊔aAFNOR
    230⊔⊔8fre 9myn aChilam Balam
    (Chilam Balam is the general name for a collection of 14 texts in Mayan languages written in Latin script.)
  7. *

    100⊔⊔ba cslv gba
    101⊔⊔aslv
    152⊔⊔aPPIAK
    200⊔1aMakarovič bSvetlana
  8. *

    100⊔⊔ba cslv gba
    101⊔⊔aslv aita afur
    152⊔⊔aPPIAK
    200⊔1aPaletti bSilvana
    (Silvana Palettiis is a Resian by birth; she is publishing in Slovenian, Italian and Friulian.)
  9. *

    100⊔⊔ba cslv gba
    101⊔⊔afre ager
    152⊔⊔bsgc
    200⊔1aMarija Antoinetta cfrancoska kraljica f1755-1793
    (Mary Antoinette was Austrian by birth and she wrote in French and German.)