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Yes. At the most basic level, RDF triples are language-agnostic — they relate resources identified by URIs, which carry no inherent natural language. For human-readable content (labels, descriptions, and the like), RDF supports language-tagged literals such as \"Hund\"@de, which can appear in the assertion, provenance, or publication info of a nanopublication just as in any other RDF graph. Note, however, that language-tagged literals are not yet fully supported when publishing through Nanodash.

In practice, the great majority of nanopublications are in English. This mirrors the reality that scientific communication is overwhelmingly conducted in English — a convention that, despite its drawbacks, brings real benefits in terms of global reach, shared vocabularies, and interoperability. Nanopublications tend to follow the same convention for the same reasons.

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