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{{TemplateBox
|name = language
|desc=Template based on the <code>#language</code> parser ([[mw:Help:Magic_words#Miscellaneous|help page]]). It returns a language name in the user's language, or in any other language specified by a second parameter.

|1=1
|1d=language code (most of the time, but not always [[:en:ISO 639-3|ISO codes]]. See http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/cldr/ for details. 
|2=2
|2d=language in which the language name should be returned (if different from the user's preferred language)
|2def=<code><nowiki>{{int:lang}}</nowiki></code>
|seealso=[[User:Rocket000/Languages/more]] for potentially missing languages)
|namespace=all<!-- or only template ?-->
|usergroup=all
}}


==Examples==

{|width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="wikitable" style="background:transparent"
|-
|width="50%" valign="top"|
* <nowiki>{{language|ar}}</nowiki> → {{language|ar}}
* <nowiki>{{language|ar|de}}</nowiki> → {{language|ar|de}}
* <nowiki>{{language|ar|en}}</nowiki> → {{language|ar|en}}
* <nowiki>{{language|ar|fr}}</nowiki> → {{language|ar|fr}}
* <nowiki>{{language|ar|he}}</nowiki> → {{language|ar|he}}
* <nowiki>{{language|ar|zh-hans}}</nowiki> → {{language|ar|zh-hans}}
|width="50%" valign="top"|
* <nowiki>{{language|en}}</nowiki> → {{language|en}}
* <nowiki>{{language|en|de}}</nowiki> → {{language|en|de}}
* <nowiki>{{language|en|en}}</nowiki> → {{language|en|en}}
* <nowiki>{{language|en|fr}}</nowiki> → {{language|en|fr}}
* <nowiki>{{language|en|he}}</nowiki> → {{language|en|he}}
* <nowiki>{{language|en|zh-hans}}</nowiki> → {{language|en|zh-hans}}
|}

== Techical documentation ==

Needs [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:CLDR|Extension:CLDR]] to work ''and'' most importantly [[MediaWiki:Lang]] to be set. If [[MediaWiki:Lang]] is not defined with  e.g. “en” it searches for a language “&lt;lang>“ in [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:CLDR|Extension:CLDR]] causing the page to disappear and showing an internal error message to switch on debugging. List of MediaWiki:Lang pages in this Wiki are:
{{Special:PrefixIndex/MediaWiki:lang/}}

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[[Category:Internationalization templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]
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