Language of the Cited Material
There is no place in which to report that the cited
article is written in a particular language. A citation
(<element-citation> or <mixed-citation>)
may take an @xml:lang attribute, but this names the language of the
citation, not that of the cited work. Parts of a citation
(such as the <article-title> and <source>)
may be marked with an @xml:lang attribute, but this is no guarantee that
the language of the original text has been named. Some publishers insert a phrase in the text to indicate
the language of the cited material (for example,
“In Japanese”). Such a phrase can be captured as a <comment>
(<comment>In Japanese<comment>) with a @content-type attribute
indicating that this is language information (“original language” or similar).