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546 - Language Note (R)

MARC 21 Bibliographic - Concise

2008

This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the 2008 electronic edition of the MARC 21 Concise Formats. Please see loc.gov/marc/concise/ for the most up-to-date version of the electronic MARC 21 Concise Formats.

Textual information on the language of the described materials. A description of the alphabet, script, or other symbol system (e.g., arabic alphabet, ASCII, musical notation system, bar code, logarithmic graphing) may also be included. Coded language information is contained in fields 008/35-37 (Language) and/or 041 (Language code).

Indicators

First - Undefined

# - Undefined

Second - Undefined

# - Undefined

Subfield Codes

$a - Language note (NR)

$b - Information code or alphabet (R)

Name of the alphabet, script, or information code that is used to record the language.

$3 - Materials specified (NR)

$6 - Linkage (NR)

See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.

$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.

Examples


546	##$aIn Hungarian; summaries in French, German, or Russian.
546	##$aEnglish, French, or German.
546	##$3John P. Harrington field notebooks$aApache;$bPhonetic alphabet.
546	##$3Marriage certificate$aGerman;$bFraktur.
546	##$aLatin;$bRoman alphabet.

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