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041 - Language Code (R)


MARC 21 Bibliographic - concise
September 2012

Codes for languages associated with an item when the language code in field 008/35-37 of the record is insufficient to convey full information. Includes records for multilingual items, items that involve translation, and items where the medium of communication is a sign language. Sources of the codes are: 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 - Item not a translation/does not include a translation
1 - Item is or includes a translation
Second - Source of code
# - MARC language code
7 - Source specified in subfield $2

Subfield Codes

$a - Language code of text/sound track or separate title (R)
$b - Language code of summary or abstract (R)
$d - Language code of sung or spoken text (R)
$e - Language code of librettos (R)
$f - Language code of table of contents (R)
$g - Language code of accompanying material other than librettos (R)
$h - Language code of original (R)
$j - Language code of subtitles or captions (R)
$k - Language code of intermediate translations (R)
$m - Language code of original accompanying materials other than librettos (R)
$n - Language code of original libretto (R)
$2 - Source of code (NR)
Source of the language code scheme used in the field. Code from: Language Code and Term Source Codes.
$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

041 ##$aeng$afre$aswe
041 ##$adut$afre$ager$aita$aspa$beng
041 0#$aeng$afre
041 1#$aeng$hrus
041 1#$aeng$hger$hswe
041 07$aen$afr$ait$2iso639-1
041 0#$aeng$afre$ager
041 0#$arus$aeng
041 0#$aeng$afre$ager$ahun$apor$arus
041 0#$asgn$aeng
041 1#$aeng$hfre
041 1#$aeng$kger$hswe
041 1#$aeng$agrc$hgrc
041 1#$aeng$hund
041 1#$aeng$hmul
041 0#$aeng$bfre$bger$bspa
041 0#$arum$ffre$fger$frus
041 ##$ager$geng
041 ##$gfre
041 1#$deng$hfre$hger$hita
041 1#$afre$efre$eger$hfre
041 1#$aeng$bger$jger
041 1#$aeng$kchi$hsan
041 1#$dfre$hita$eeng$efre$eger$eita$geng$gfre$gger$gita$mger
041 1#$deng$hrus$eeng$nrus$geng$gfre$gger
041 07$aen$afr$ait$2iso639-1
041 0#$aeng$afre
041 07$aen$afr$2iso639-1

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(09/19/2012)
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