Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with linguistic tags for documents are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a document. The example method includes applying a language tag value to a language tag of the document and applying a locale tag value to a locale tag of the document. The language tag and the locale tag are assigned positions in a hierarchy of linguistic tags such that the language tag inherits from the locale tag. The example method may also include storing the document, the language tag value, and the locale tag value in a memory.