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knowsLanguage

Of a Person, and less typically of an Organization, to indicate a known language. We do not distinguish skill levels or reading/writing/speaking/signing here. Use language codes from the IETF BCP 47 standard.

Value
Language or Text
Used on
Organization and Person
Source
Schema.org 30.1

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Used on
knowsLanguage
Its value
An Organization or a Person can have a knowsLanguage, and its value is a Language or a Text.

Used on

2 types have a knowsLanguage, and so does every type that descends from them.

Its value

Its value is one of these 2 types.

Where this comes from

Quoted from Schema.org, and credited. Nothing in this definition is written by us.

  1. Published by
    Schema.orgschema.org/knowsLanguage
  2. Release
    Version 30.116 September 2026
  3. Proposed in
    Schema.org issue 1688
  4. License
    CC BY-SA 3.0Free to copy and adapt, with credit, under the same licence
  5. Changed by us
    Nothing.

Use this property

Its definition is free to reuse, with credit to Schema.org. The same property is here as data, for programs and for language models.

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