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041 - Language Code (R)

MARC 21 Community Information - Concise

2008

Codes for languages associated with the community information entity when the language code in field 008/12-14 (Language) is insufficient for a multilingual entity. Codes from: MARC Code List for Languages or other code lists, such as ISO 639-1 (Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 1: alpha-2 code).

Indicators

First - Translation indication

# - No information provided

0 - Not translation

1 - Translation

Second - Source of code

# - MARC language code

7 - Source specified in subfield $2

Subfield Codes

$a - Language code associated with community information entity (R)

Codes for languages associated with the community information entity. The first language code in subfield $a is also contained in field 008/12-14.

$b - Language code of supertitle or subtitle (R)

$h - Language code of original (R)

$2 - Source of code (NR)

Code that identifies the source of the language code scheme used in the field. Code from: Language Code and Term Source Codes. If a non-MARC code is used to express the predominate language in an item, field 008/12-14 is coded with three fill characters (| | |).

$6 - Linkage (NR)

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

$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)

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

Examples


041	##$aeng$hger
041	0#$aeng$aspa
041	1#$aeng$hrus
041	0#$aeng$afre $aspa
041	0#$aita$beng
041	1#$aita$beng $hfre
041	07$aen$afr $2iso639-1

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