Template:Language

Template documentation

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Template based on the #language parser (help page). It returns a language name in the user's language, or in any other language specified by a second parameter.

Usage

{{language|1=|2=}}

Parameters

Parameter name	Description	Default value	required or optional?
parameter #1 (1)	language code (most of the time, but not always ISO codes. See http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/cldr/ for details.	empty	optional
parameter #2 (2)	language in which the language name should be returned (if different from the user's preferred language)	{{int:lang}}	optional

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: all namespaces

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

See also

User:Rocket000/Languages/more for potentially missing languages)

Examples

{{language|ar}} → Arabic {{language|ar|de}} → Arabisch {{language|ar|en}} → Arabic {{language|ar|fr}} → arabe {{language|ar|he}} → ערבית {{language|ar|zh-hans}} → 阿拉伯文

{{language|en}} → English {{language|en|de}} → Englisch {{language|en|en}} → English {{language|en|fr}} → anglais {{language|en|he}} → אנגלית {{language|en|zh-hans}} → 英文

Techical documentation

Needs 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 “<lang>“ in 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: