Template:Lang

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Usage

This template tags pieces of text with the appropriate language code and allows for the implementation of Web Fonts.

This template is a <span> template.
{{lang block}} is the <div> version of this template.

{{lang|language|text}}

{{lang
 | language  = 
 | text      = 
 | direction = 
 | font      = 
 | style     =
 | class     =
 | attr      =
 | inline    =
}}

Parameters

• language: (Also lang or the first unnamed parameter) The code for the language being displayed, using ISO 639. This can be two or three letters depending on the specificity of the language you are declaring. For example "French" is fr is, but "Old French" is fro.
• text: (Also the second unnamed parameter) The text to be displayed.
• direction: (Also dir) Text direction, can be ltr (left-to-right) or rtl (right-to-left). Left-to-right is standard; right-to-left is used for languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. If this is not set, the template will attempt to select the correct text direction based on the language parameter.
• font: Uses the webfont extension. See Web Fonts below.
• style: The code for other optional CSS style being applied, such as font-feature-setting: 'locl'; for localized glyph(s).
• class: Any HTML classes to apply, such as class="plainlinks".
• attr: The code for other optional HTML attributes being applied

Internal parameters

This parameter is for internal use only, to distiguish between {{lang}} and {{lang block}}.
It shall not be used directly.

• inline: The type of template:
  • inline=yes (default) will provide an inline template (<span> ... </span>); this is used internally in {{lang}}.
  • inline=no (or != yes) will provide a block template (<div> ... </div>); this is used internally in {{lang block}}.

This parameter can be used by /s templates to not close the tag, but instead leave it open, e.g. for crossing a page break.

• noclose: The type of template:
  • noclose=yes (default) leave the tag open
  • Any other value: close the tag as normal

Examples

Hebrew text and unnamed parameters

{{lang|he|ארץ זבת חלב ודבש}}

ארץ זבת חלב ודבש

The same text without this template: ארץ זבת חלב ודבש

Arabic text and named parameters

{{lang
 | language = ar
 | text     = المدينة‎
 | dir      = rtl
}}

المدينة‎

Arabic text and non-standard web font

{{lang|ar|المدينة‎|font=Amiri}}

المدينة‎

Burmese text and different web fonts

{{lang|my|အ​ကူ​အ​ညီ​}}

အ​ကူ​အ​ညီ​

{{lang|my|အ​ကူ​အ​ညီ​|font=Padauk-Regular}}

အ​ကူ​အ​ညီ​

{{lang|my|အ​ကူ​အ​ညီ​|font=Yunghkio}}

အ​ကူ​အ​ညီ​

English text (Latin script) with web font

{{lang|text=Lorem ipsum|font=Rufscript}}

Lorem ipsum

{{lang|text=Lorem ipsum|font=Ubuntu}}

Lorem ipsum

{{lang|text=Lorem ipsum|font=UnifrakturMaguntia}}

Lorem ipsum

{{lang|en|Lorem ipsum|font=Linux Libertine}}

Lorem ipsum

Language attribute

As stated under parameters, the language should be set with an ISO 639 language code.

However, if necessary, this can be specified even further with an ISO 15924 script code and/or an ISO 3166-1 country code. Script codes can be used if the text is in a script other than that associated with the language. Country codes can be used to specify the text's country of origin.

Use	Text	Attribute	Code	Notes
Language	Χαίρε, ω χαίρε Ελευθεριά!	el	{{lang|el|Χαίρε, ω χαίρε Ελευθεριά!}}	Greek text. "el" = Greek language.
Script	Haire, o haire, Eleftheria!	el-Latn	{{lang|el-Latn|Haire, o haire, Eleftheria!}}	Transliterated into Latin script. "Latn" = Latin script.
Country	Χαίρε, ω χαίρε Ελευθεριά!	el-GR	{{lang|el-GR|Χαίρε, ω χαίρε Ελευθεριά!}}	Greek origin. "GR" = Greece.
Script & Country	Haire, o haire, Eleftheria!	el-Latn-GR	{{lang|el-Latn-GR|Haire, o haire, Eleftheria!}}	Greek language in Latin script from Greece.
See IETF language tag on Wikipedia for more information.

Web Fonts

This template makes use of the Universal Language Selector extension installed on this project. This extension allows for the proper display of languages where the standard font is either unavailable or of insufficient quality.

The language parameter will determine which font is used. In some cases, multiple fonts are available; the preferred font can be selected with the font parameter. If the font parameter is not used, the default font for that language will be selected. Currently no support for mobile devices.

Language	ISO-639	Fonts
Ahirani	ahr	Lohit Devanagari
Akkadian	akk	Akkadian
Amharic	am	Abyssinica SIL
Arabic (Naskh script)	ar	Amiri
		Scheherazade
		Lateef
Nastaʿlīq script (Aran)		Hussaini Nastaleeq
Assamese	as	Lohit Assamese
Bengali	bn	Lohit Bengali, Siyam Rupali
Bhojpuri	bh	Lohit Devanagari
Bishnupriya Manipuri	bpy	Lohit Bengali
Buginese	bug	Saweri
Burmese	my	Padauk-Regular
		Myanmar3
		TharLon
		Yunghkio
Dzongkha	dz	Jomolhari
Gujarati	gu	Lohit Gujarati
Hebrew	he	Alef
		Miriam CLM
		Taamey Frank CLM
Biblical Hebrew	hbo	Taamey Frank CLM
Hindi	hi	Lohit Devanagari
		Samyak Devanagari
Kannada	kn	Lohit Kannada
		Kedage
Khmer	km	Hanuman, KhmerOSbattambang, KhmerOS, Nokora, Suwannaphum
Konkani	kok	Lohit Devanagari
Latin script (Latn)		Charis SIL
		ComicNeue
		Doulos SIL
		Gentium Plus
		Junicode
		Linux Libertine
		RailwaySans
		Rufscript
		Ubuntu
Latin fraktur script (Latf)		UnifrakturMaguntia
Makassarese	mak	Saweri
Malayalam	ml	AnjaliOldLipi
		Meera
		RaghuMalayalam
Maithili	mai	Lohit Devanagari
Marathi	mr	Lohit Devanagari
		Samyak Devanagari
Min Dong Chinese	cdo	Charis SIL
		Doulos SIL
Oriya (Odia)	or	Lohit Oriya
		Utkal
Punjabi	pa	Lohit Punjabi
		Saab
Persian (Farsi)	fa	IranianSans
		IranianSerif
Sourashtra	saz	Pagul
Sanskrit	sa	Lohit Devanagari, Samyak Devanagari
Tamil	ta	Lohit Tamil
		Thendral
		Thenee
Telugu	te	Lohit Telugu
		Pothana2000
		Vemana2000
Tibetan	bo	BabelStone Tibetan Slim
Tigrinya	ti	Abyssinica SIL
Yi	yi	Nuosu SIL
See here for a list of all available fonts.

Language tagging

Texts on Wikisource should be tagged to specify the language in a machine readable format. All pages on English Wikisource are automatically tagged as "English". Any piece of text that is not in English should be tagged as such with this template or one of its derivatives.

Language tagging on Meta-Wiki explains the best practice of language tagging.

Blocks split across pages

For blocks in a different language split across multiple pages, use {{lang block/s}} to begin the block and {{lang block/e}} to end it. {{lang block/s}} takes the same parameters as {{lang}} except for |inline=, which is fixed as "no".

See also

• {{el}} & {{greek}}
• {{hebrew}}, {{Lang-he}} & {{GHGheb}}
• {{syriac}} & {{Lang-syc}}
• {{arabic}} & {{Lang-ara}}
• {{chinese}}
• {{korean}}
• {{japanese}}
• {{armenian}}
• {{Lang-hbo}}
• {{Lang-sux}}
• {{Insular}}
• {{ISO 639 name}}
• {{blackletter}}

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Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
language	language lang 1	The code for the language being displayed, using ISO 639.	String	required
text	text 2	The text to be displayed.	String	required
inline	inline	Determines if a span or block is generated.	Boolean	optional
font	font	no description	Unknown	optional
fonts	fonts	no description	Unknown	optional
style	style	no description	Unknown	optional
class	class	no description	Unknown	optional
attr	attr	no description	Unknown	optional
noclose	noclose	no description	Unknown	optional
direction	direction	no description	Unknown	optional
dir	dir	no description	Unknown	optional

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