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Literals in RDF may be language tagged strings. These literals have a text part as well as a language tag. For instance, the literal "color"@en has the text part "color" and the language tag "en". In a SPARQL query, use the lang function to get the language of a lite...

The SPARQL function langMatches can be used to compare the language tags of RDF literals in SPARQL queries. The simple equality operator, =, can be used to compare exact string matches, but will not correctly consider regional variants. For instance, the four possible values of ?str in: values ...