## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <firstLang>

`<firstLang>` | (First language) specifies the first language of a participant.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from demographic

Example

    <firstLang>French</firstLang>

Module | Declared in file teicorp2; Additional tag set for language corpora: enabled by TEI.corpus
Class | demographic

May contain

#PCDATA abbr add addSpan address alt altGrp anchor app c caesura cb certainty cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del delSpan distinct emph expan fLib foreign formula fs fsLib fvLib fw gap geogName gloss handShift hi index interp interpGrp join joinGrp lang lb link linkGrp m measure mentioned milestone name num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar pb persName phr placeName ptr ref reg respons restore rs s seg sic soCalled space span spanGrp supplied term time timeRange timeStruct timeline title unclear w xptr xref

May occur within | person personGrp

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT firstLang %om.RO; %phrase.seq;>
    <!ATTLIST firstLang
          %a.global;>

See further | 23.2.2 The Participants Description

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