Language templates |
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Language names (ISO 639) |
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Interwiki links |
Foreign-language text |
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Other |
This template is intended primarily for:
This includes:
The addition of language templates on Wikipedia improves Wikipedia's accessibility. In adding language templates, visually-impaired readers who utilise screenreader technology will be able to hear words pronounced in the correct language, instead of them being pronounced phonetically in English.
Place ((Cleanup lang|article|date=June 2024))
on articles where non-English text is used, but has not been marked up.
If a section in an article does not use any language templates, place ((Cleanup lang|section|date=June 2024))
there.
If you know the ISO language code for the non-English text that needs formatting, you can add this to the cleanup template under the parameter |iso=
. The ISO code should be present in the infobox of the language's article; for example, Latin is la, and Manx language is gv.
The basic language templates used on Wikipedia are:
Wikipedia also has a number of language-specific multilingual support templates, such as ((nihongo)) and ((lang-zh)), which feature parameters specific to those languages, such as parameters for different transliteration styles.
This cleanup template automatically adds articles to Category:Pages with non-English text lacking appropriate markup, or a dated subcategory thereof.
|italic=
parameter exists in both ((lang)) and ((transliteration)), and can be set to |italic=no, it is unnecessary to add language templates for the names of people and places.