Template:Lang-x/doc

Usage

The language template {{lang-x}} identifies foreign language text. The term or phrase is the only mandatory parameter. The text is formatted according to recommendations in Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting § Foreign terms; italics for languages that use the Latin alphabet, normal for others.

The template should generally be placed after the English translation of the foreign term or phrase.

The parameter |links=no prevents the language name from being linked.

The parameter |translit= allows for a romanization to be identified. The templates that have this parameter are listed here. (This parameter is not supported by lang-x templates for languages that are already written in Latin script.)

The parameter |lit= enables a literal translation (in English) to be given. It is being rolled out to these templates and so may be available for {{lang-x}}.

Examples

The following examples show translations from German.

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• Weimar is located in the federal state of Thuringia ({{Lang-de|Thüringen}}).
• The Seafarers of Catan ({{Lang-de|Die Seefahrer von Catan}}) is an expansion of the board game The Settlers of Catan.
• Albert the Bear ({{Lang-de|Albrecht der Bär|links=no}})
• All Quiet on the Western Front ({{Lang-de|Im Westen nichts Neues|lit=In the West Nothing New}}) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

Resulting text

• Weimar is located in the federal state of Thuringia (German: Thüringen).
• The Seafarers of Catan (German: Die Seefahrer von Catan) is an expansion of the board game The Settlers of Catan.
• Albert the Bear (German: Albrecht der Bär)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. 'In the West Nothing New') is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

Supporting templates

This template may use one of the following templates:

• {{Language with name}}

All of the above use {{Lang}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Lang-x in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Lang-x

<templatedata> { "params": { "1": { "label": "Text", "description": "The foreign text to display.", "type": "string", "required": true }, "links": { "label": "Display link", "description": "Set to 'no' to disable the link to the article's language.", "type": "boolean", "aliases": [ "link" ] }, "lit": { "label": "Literal translation", "description": "The literal translation of the foreign text.", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "translation" ] }, "translit": { "label": "Transliteration", "description": "The transliteration of the foreign text, for languages that do not use the Latin alphabet. This field is ignored for languages that do use the Latin alphabet.", "type": "string" }, "label": { "label": "Language label", "description": "If 'none', suppresses language link and label. Other options may be available depending on the language.", "example": "none", "type": "line" } }, "description": "Indicates to readers the original form of a term or phrase in a foreign language.", "paramOrder": [ "1", "links", "lit", "translit", "label" ] } </templatedata>

See also

• {{Lang}}
• {{Language with name/for}}
• List of ISO 639-1 codes (language codes)
• {{IPA}}