id: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/class/Language
name: Language
title: Language
prefixes:
  linkml: https://w3id.org/linkml/
  hc: https://nde.nl/ontology/hc/
  dcterms: http://purl.org/dc/terms/
  schema: http://schema.org/
default_prefix: hc
imports:
- linkml:types
- ../slots/has_code
- ../slots/has_text
- ../slots/has_label
classes:
  Language:
    class_uri: dcterms:LinguisticSystem
    description: >-
      Linguistic system entity used to express language identity and optionally
      associate in-language text content.
    alt_descriptions:
      nl: Taalentiteit voor het identificeren van een taal en optioneel het koppelen van tekstinhoud in die taal.
      de: Spracheinheit zur Identifikation einer Sprache und optionalen Zuordnung von Textinhalten in dieser Sprache.
      fr: Entite de langue permettant d identifier une langue et d associer eventuellement un contenu textuel dans cette langue.
      es: Entidad de idioma para identificar una lengua y opcionalmente asociar contenido textual en ese idioma.
      ar: كيان لغوي لتحديد اللغة وربط محتوى نصي بهذه اللغة اختياريا.
      id: Entitas bahasa untuk mengidentifikasi bahasa dan (opsional) mengaitkan konten teks dalam bahasa tersebut.
      zh: 用于标识语言并可选关联该语言文本内容的语言实体。
    structured_aliases:
    - {literal_form: taal, in_language: nl}
    - {literal_form: Sprache, in_language: de}
    - {literal_form: langue, in_language: fr}
    - {literal_form: idioma, in_language: es}
    - {literal_form: لغة, in_language: ar}
    - {literal_form: bahasa, in_language: id}
    - {literal_form: 语言, in_language: zh}
    slots:
    - has_code
    - has_text
    - has_label
    slot_usage:
      has_label:
        description: Human-readable name of the language (e.g., "English", "Dutch", "French").
        required: false
      has_text:
        description: Optional text content bundled with the language identifier.
        required: false
    exact_mappings:
    - dcterms:LinguisticSystem
    close_mappings:
    - schema:Language
    comments:
    - Supports bundling a language identifier with language-tagged text values for multilingual data.
    - Intended to support migration from language-specific text slots to a unified Language object pattern.
    examples:
    - value:
        has_code: fr
        has_label: French
        has_text: archives universitaires
      description: Language-tagged text (code + label + text)
    - value:
        has_code: en
        has_label: English
      description: Language identifier without text content
    - value:
        has_code: nl
        has_label: Dutch
        has_text: universitair archief
      description: Language-tagged text for multilingual label
    annotations:
      specificity_score: 0.1
      specificity_rationale: Generic utility class/slot created during migration
      custodian_types: "['*']"