English
- CURIE:
gmeow:langEnglish - IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/langEnglish
- Category: individual
- Defined by:
gmeow:slices/language - Box roles: ABox role (What is this?)
The English language — the seed gmeow:Language individual (gmeow:langEnglish) anchoring the internal private-use tag en carried by the framework's own literals. Registry codes are alignments, never identity.
Structure
Types: gmeow:Language
Practical Pattern
Use gmeow:langEnglish as a controlled value typed as gmeow:Language.
Example Snippets
These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.
Multilingual Document
- Source:
slices/core/language/examples/multilingual-document.ttl - Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-language-examples-multilingual-document
# --- Languages: first-class, BCP-47-tagged. English already exists as the core
# seed gmeow:langEnglish — reused, not re-minted. Japanese has no seed, so it
# is minted, declaring its internal private-use tag for @lang annotations.
ex:japanese a gmeow:Language ;
rdfs:label "Japanese"@en ;
gmeow:bcp47Tag "ja" ;
gmeow:languageTag "ja" .
# --- A bilingual document: two co-equal languages, neither primary. The title is
# carried as separate co-equal language-tagged literals, one per language.
ex:manual a gmeow:InformationObject ;
gmeow:title "Installation Manual"@en , "インストールマニュアル"@ja ;
gmeow:writtenInLanguage gmeow:langEnglish , ex:japanese .
Proficiency
- Source:
slices/extensions/languages/examples/proficiency.ttl - Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-languages-examples-proficiency
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: language proficiency is PER-MODALITY . A flat
# gmeow:nativeLanguage / gmeow:knowsLanguage says WHICH languages an agent has;
# the reified gmeow:LanguageProficiency says HOW WELL — and crucially per
# gmeow:proficiencyModality (reading / speaking / listening / signing …), because
# the same person is often strong reading a language and weak speaking it. Each
# proficiency is read against an explicit named gmeow:proficiencyScale (here
# CEFR), so a level is never a bare adjective. Languages reuse the core seeds
# (gmeow:langEnglish / langFrench).
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/languages/> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
ex:dana a gmeow:Person ;
gmeow:name "Dana Reyes"@en ;
gmeow:nativeLanguage gmeow:langEnglish ;
gmeow:knowsLanguage gmeow:langFrench .