## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <langUsage>

`<langUsage>` | (language usage) describes the languages, sublanguages, registers, dialects etc. represented within a text.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from declarable

Example

    <langUsage>
       <language wsd="FR" usage="60">Qu&eacute;becois</language>
       <language wsd="EN" usage="20">Canadian business English</language>
       <language wsd="EN" usage="20">British English</language>
    </langUsage>

Module | Declared in file teihdr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
Class | declarable
Data Description | may contain either a simple prose description, or more formally one or more `<language>` elements
May contain | language p
May occur within | profileDesc

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT langUsage %om.RO; (p | language)+>
    <!ATTLIST langUsage
          %a.global;
          %a.declarable;>

See further | 5.4.2 Language Usage; 5.4 The Profile Description; 23.3.2 Declarable Elements

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