Ancient and modern languages

Text in a language other than the default language of the document should be indicated by the use of the attribute @lang='' with the ISO 639 three-letter code for the language in question. In addition, the code must be declared in the teiHeader (see 5.3.3 Using profileDesc) in TEI.2/teiHeader/profileDesc/langUsage.

Encoding of language declarations in profileDesc langUsage     language id="eng"English/language     language id="fre"French/language     language id="grc"Ancient Greek/language     language id="gre"Modern Greek/language     language id="lat"Latin/language /langUsage
Using language ids in document encoding TEI.2 lang="eng" div type="edition" lang="grc" Gallienus' additional foreign lang="lat"nomen/foreign, Egnatius... Boulanger: foreign lang="fre"Galerie de l'Est. À gauche de la porte centrale/foreign The letters foreign lang="grc"ΠΡΟΚΑΛΣΕΠΤ/foreign have been erased
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