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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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