name language

• CURIE: gmeow:nameLanguage
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/nameLanguage
• Category: property
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/names
• Box roles: RBox role (What is this?)

The first-class gmeow:Language an appellation's surface form is in. Language is ALWAYS a first-class gmeow:Language (registry-INDEPENDENT, self-minted IRI) — never a bare BCP-47 literal; codes (e.g. "ja", "zh") live on the Language via gmeow:languageCode, so a code-less conlang or AI-minted language names co-equally. FUNCTIONAL — exactly one language per appellation: co-equal multilingual names are modelled as SEPARATE co-equal gmeow:Appellation instances (one per language), never by multi-tagging a single name (that is what keeps naming anti-colonial and symmetric). Drives locale-relative, symmetric display selection — never a ranking of one name above another. The script the form is written in is gmeow:nameScript (bridging to a first-class gmeow:WritingSystem).

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Appellation -> gmeow:Language; functional

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:nameLanguage from gmeow:Appellation to gmeow:Language when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Appellation, gmeow:Language

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: dcterms, lime, schema, wdt

Linkages

Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.

Term Equivalences

Projection Coverage

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to record the single first-class gmeow:Language an appellation's surface form is in — driving locale-relative, symmetric display selection.

Avoid when

• Avoid a bare BCP-47 literal (language is always a first-class gmeow:Language carrying its own code) and avoid multi-tagging one appellation with several languages — it is functional, so co-equal multilingual names are separate appellations.

How to use

• Set gmeow:nameLanguage once per appellation (functional) to a gmeow:Language individual; carry the script with gmeow:nameScript, and never use the language to rank one name above another.

Examples

• ex:yamadaName gmeow:nameLanguage ex:japanese.