Lexvo.org Ontology Lexvo.org Ontology Lexvo.org Ontology Version 0.24 (2019-01-16) 2019-01-16 Groups of human language variants that are or were spoken, written, or signed at some point in time. This definition includes languages, particular language variants (e.g. dialects), and larger groups of language variants (e.g. macrolanguages and language families), as the distinction between them is largely conventional. language A term in a specific language. term An abstract character as defined by the Unicode Standard, Version 5, in Chapter 3.4. character The same abstract character may be rendered in different forms, depending on the language and on typeface characters. A CJK character radical. radical CJK radicals are slightly more abstract than characters, because the same radical can be manifested as different characters, e.g. radical 4 can take the form of '丿', '乀', or '乁'. A writing system considered abstractly, i.e. independent of language-specific variations. script Geographic regions on Earth or elsewhere. geographic region The property of being at least somewhat the same as something else. For instance, the City of Los Angeles is somewhat the same as the Greater Los Angeles area. somewhat same as The property of being at least nearly the same as something else. For instance, the geographical area comprising the island of Malta is nearly the same as the island of Malta. nearly same as The property of genuine identity in the Leibnizian sense. same as The strength of an rdf:Statement, given is a value in [0,1]. strength the semiotic property of semantically representing something, i.e. a relationship between words and other signs and resources that they represent (or represented) to a considerable number of humans represents represented by the semiotic property of a natural language word meaning something, i.e. a relationship between words and resources that they represent (or represented) to a considerable number of humans means the semiotic property of possessing a natural language label (as opposed to artificial identifiers), e.g. the city of Paris is lexicalized in Italian using the Italian term "Parigi". This property is more general than skosxl:prefLabel and skosxl:altLabel, as it does not make any normative claims about which labels are preferred. It merely describes the fact that a certain label can be used to refer to something. has label If C lvont:Label L and L skosxl:literalForm V, then X rdfs:label V. The property of a resource being mainly encoded in a specific language. in language The property of a term containing a specific character. contains character translational equivalence between words and other signs and resources that they represent to or represented to a considerable number of humans translation Domain and range are usually Term objects, however string literals are acceptable as well for the range. The property of being a variant of another resource. variant Especially for terms and characters. ISO 639-1 code ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code ISO 639-2 Terminological code ISO 639-3 code ISO 639-5 code MARC 21 / USMARC code ISO 15924 alphabetic code The property of a document being written in a specific script, or a language being written or having being written in a specific script by a considerable group of language users. in script The property of a language being written or having being written in a specific script by a considerable group of language users. uses script The property of a script being used for a particular language by a considerable of language users (but not necessarily the majority of all language users). script for The property of a language or writing system being used somewhat extensively in a particular geographical region at some point in time. used in The property of a character being composed of another character. character component Especially for CJK characters. The property of a CJK character being conventionally associated with a CJK character radical. translation The property of a character conventionally being written with a specific number strokes, excluding the strokes of its radical. non-radical strokes Especially for CJK characters. The property of having a broader, more generic concept. broader Similar to skos:broader but domain and range are not restricted to skos:Concept instances. The property of having a narrower, less generic concept. narrower Similar to skos:narrower but domain and range are not restricted to skos:Concept instances. The property of being a member of a group. member of For instance for geographic regions. The property of having a member. has member For instance for geographic regions. The property of involving some entity, e.g. for semantic participants involved in a semantic frame. involves The property of being involved in something, e.g. for semantic participants' involvement in a semantic frame. involved in The property of conceptually evoking some object. evokes A lexical category that a term can be used in. lexical category For example, the English term "score" can be used as a noun and as a verb. is focus of The isFocusOf relates an entity to relevant SKOS concepts that are conceptualizations of the same entity. This is the inverse of the standard foaf:focus property, which connects a SKOS concept to a relevant non-conceptualized entity.