The purpose of this list is to record which local languages are spoken by a person.

Organisations will need to establish a list of local languages in order to complete this field consistently.

This Micro-thesaurus is used for field 946 Local Language in the Person format and for field 2513 Local Language of Source Material in the Information format.

Example

Human rights groups in South Africa may want to use the following list of languages (1):

CODE
 TERM
 

01  English
02  Afrikaans
03  Zulu
04  Northern Soto
06  Southern Soto
07  Tswana
08  Shangaan
09  Ndebele
10  Swazi
11  Venda

(1) The terms are extracted from: Minority Rights Group (ed.). World Directory of Minorities. London: Minority Rights Group International, 1997. 510.