Rdflib match language wildcard

Is there a buildin function to match statements by the language tag of literals in rdflib.js?

graph.match(me, speaks, $rdf.lit(undefined, 'en')) didn’t work.

Would be quite useful…

That built-in doesn’t exist AFAIK. However it’s easy enough to do with map(). This will gather the subjects of all statements whose object is specified as English:

let all = store.match( null,null,null );
let en = all.map( (stm)=>{ 
    if( stm.object.lang && stm.object.lang==="en" )
        return stm.subject;
} );
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Just a different style for nearly the same (filters out wrong languages instead of making them undefined:

let en = store.match(null, null, null)
              .filter(stm => stm.object.lang && stm.object.lang === "en");
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Hi, I rather prefer modeling this in a different manner. The language can be modeled as an object on its own too, the annotation in literals is IMHO not the best fit. You’ll probably find an ontology having a language class and instances for the different languages. For example: https://schema.org/Language

Cheers.