سانچو:Infobox Language

Infobox Language
Language family en:Line-handling templates	Default Infobox Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

دستاويز سانچو[نمائش] [سنواريو] [تاريخچو] [تطهير]

هن خاني ۾ سانچي جي نحو جي چند انتہائي پيچيدهه ۽ پوشيدهه خصويات استعمال ڪيو ويون آهن۔ براءِ ڪرم هن ۾ ڪا به تبديلي ڪرڻ جي ڪوشش نه ڪئي وڃي سواءِ ان جي ته توهان نحو جي ڍانچي لي پوري طرح سمجهندا هجو ۽ تبديليءَ جي غير متوقع نتيجن ڪي صورت ۾ سانچي جي مرمت جي لاءِ تيار هجو۔ ڪنهن به قسم جي تجربن ريتخاني ۾ ڪيو وڃن۔

This template is for use in articles about languages or dialects. It provides a common standard for displaying data about a language.

Usage

This template accepts the following parameters:

name

name of language #REQUIRED

altname

additional name of the language

nativename

native or a second additional name

pronunciation

IPA pronunciation of the native name

acceptance

questionable acceptance/status of the language: unattested, spurious, etc.

states

countries in which it is mainly spoken

state

alias for states

region

geographic region in which it is mainly spoken

latd

latitude degrees

latm

latitude minutes

latNS

latitude direction

longd

longitude degrees

longm

longitude minutes

longEW

longitude direction

ethnicity

people for whom this is the ethnically native language; also good for the ethnic population if different from the number of speakers (although the names chosen for the articles on the people and on the language will generally be the same, it may be appropriate to pipe in the native name of the people here)

speakers

{{sigfig|number of native speakers/signers|2}}

date

date of estimate of number of speakers/signers (must start with a 4-digit year: see next)

dateprefix

any text wanted inside the parentheses before the date; a space ( ) must be explicitly included at the end

era

era of use of a historical language, such as one that developed into something else; 'speakers' will not display

extinct

date of extinction, or information about extinction; 'speakers' will not display

revived

Date and/or population of attempted revival of extinct language

revived-category

optional name (without "Category:") of appropriate subcategory of Category:Language revival (which is used by default if |revived= has a value); or nocat to suppress categorization

ref

reference for the number of speakers/signers. Appears after the (date) field.

speakers2

2nd line (2nd estimate, 2nd country, L2 speakers, etc.)

familycolor

appropriate language family #REQUIRED

See table below for list of options. Please do not use other names, because they will not be recognised, and the table will be colored grey.

In most cases, 'familycolor' will trigger a default entry for the 'fam1' field, so that field is not necessary (you can continue will 'fam2'), but you can override this by entering something under 'fam1'. For areal colors (American, Khoisan, Paleosiberian, etc.), you will be prompted for a 'fam1' entry if you do not provide one. If 'isolate' or 'unclassified' is used, the fam1–xx tree will not display.

fam1

the broadest possible widely accepted language family of which the language is a part

fam2

a more specific sub-family

...

fam15

most specific sub group

family

whatever you want to say; fam1–xx will not display

ancestor

ancestral or reconstructed forms

ancestor2

...

ancestor5

intermediate forms

protoname

alias for ancestor

creator

name of language creator

created

year of first creation

setting

the use or setting for a created language

posteriori

natural-language sources of a created language

dia1

...

dia20

primary dialects

dialects

whatever you want to say; dia1–xx will not display

liststyle

style for the dia1–xx list: plainlist (default), hlist (horizontal) or flatlist (bulleted)

stand1

a standardized register

stand2

a second standardized register

...

stand6

sixth standardized register

standards

whatever you want to say

script

the writing system(s) used for the language by literate speakers

sign

signed forms (manually coded language)

nation

list of countries in which it is an official language

minority

list of countries in which it is a recognised/protected minority language

agency

regulatory body or language academy for the language

iso1

the ISO 639-1 code for the language

iso2

the ISO 639-2 code for the language (not for its family)

iso2b

the ISO 639-2 bibliographic code

iso2t

the ISO 639-2 terminological code

iso2comment

for comments to not interfere with the link

iso3

the ISO 639-3 code for the language.

Field will display even if left empty, unless 'lc1' etc. is used.

Use 'none' if the language (not dialect) has no iso3 code, and the article will be added to Category:Languages without iso3 codes.

Leave empty for a dialect that has no iso3 code, but the language it belongs to does; in this case, also use |isoexception=dialect.

Leave empty for a historical variety that has no iso3 code, but its modern version does; in this case, also use |isoexception=historical.

Leave blank for a protolanguage, and use |isoexception=protolanguage.

Use 'linglist' if it has an iso3 code, but this is maintained at Linguist List instead of at SIL. Add the code itself under |linglist=. (This is not necessary if the SIL page provides its own link to the Linguist List page.)

iso3comment

for comments to not interfere with the link

سانچو:Vanchor

a maintenance field to organize cleanup categories.

Excludes article from the Category:Language articles without language codes if set to any of the following values:

dialect (used for a dialect that does not itself have an ISO code, although the language it belongs to does; adds article to the Category:Dialects of languages with ISO 639-3 code)

historical (used for a historical language that does not itself have an ISO code, although its modern version does; adds article to the Category:Historical forms of languages with ISO codes)

protolanguage (used for protolanguages without ISO codes; adds article to the Category:Protolanguages without ISO codes)

talkpage (used on talk pages and in archives so that they don't show up in tracking categories)

lc1

ISO code of the first dialect (the 'iso3' field will not display if empty and this is included)

ld1

name of the first language dialect

lc2

ISO code of the second dialect

ld2

name of the second language dialect

...

lc30

ISO code of the 30–th dialect

ld30

name of the 30–th dialect

iso6

the ISO 639-6 code for the language.

linglist

a private or local Linguist List ISO 639-3 code or substitute for an ISO code; use xxx-xxx format for dialects.

Use for code range qaa–qtz or those involving numerals only; enter other codes under 'iso3' and the reader will be redirected from Ethnologue.

lingname

comment on the Linguist List code or support

linglist2

linglist3

additional Linguist List codes

lingname2

lingname3

additional comments. (If Linguist List has redundant codes, write to them, and they will likely retire them.)

lingua

the Linguasphere code for the language

glotto2

...

glotto5

the Glottolog code(s) for the language

glottoname2

...

glottoname5

the Glottolog name(s) for the language; appears in both the info box and the footnote

glottorefname2

...

glottorefname5

the Glottolog name(s) for the language; appears only in the footnote

glottofoot

set to "no" to hide the Glottolog footnotes

guthrie

the Guthrie code for Bantu languages

aiatsis

the AIATSIS code for Australian languages (linked)

aiatsis2

...

aiatsis8

additional AIATSIS codes

aiatsisname2

...

aiatsisname8

name of code, if not that of the info box, or note to appear after code

ietf

IETF language tag

image

image at top of info box. Use format "image name.png", without "file/image" or brackets.

imagesize

override default image size (currently 200px). Use units ("123px", "12em")

imagealt

alt text for the image

imagecaption

caption to appear under image

imageheader

brief header for image (appears in the left-hand column)

map

image at bottom of info box. Use format "image name.png", without "file/image" or brackets.

mapsize

override default map size (currently 220px). Use units ("123px", "12em"). Affects both maps.

mapalt

alt text for the map

mapcaption

caption to appear under map

map2

a second map

mapalt2

alt text for the second map

mapcaption2

caption to appear under both maps

boxsize

overrides default width of infobox, currently set at 22em. Format must include units ("12em" or "123px").

Useful when an article has various infoboxes aligned in a column. (Box will automatically expand to fix map wider than default box width.)

notice

notice2

IPA/ipa [adds notice for IPA notation], Indic [same for Indic scripts]

module

Used for embedding other infoboxes into this one.

Syntax

{{Infobox language
| name          =
| altname       =
| nativename    =
| pronunciation =
| states (state) =
| region        =
| latd  = | latm  = | latNS  = <!-- latitude degrees/minutes/direction -->
| longd = | longm = | longEW = <!-- longitude degrees/minutes/direction -->
| ethnicity     =
| speakers      =
| extinct       =
| revived       =
| revived-cat   =
| era           =
| date          =
| dateprefix    =
| ref           =
| speakers2     =
| familycolor   =
| fam1          =
| fam2          =
| fam15         =
| family        =
| ancestor(2/3) =
| creator       =
| created       =
| setting       =
| posteriori    =
| dia1          =
| dia2          =
| dialects      =
| sign          =
| stand1        =
| stand2        =
| standards     =
| script        =
| nation        =
| minority      =
| agency        =
| iso1          =
| iso2          =
| iso2b         =
| iso2t         = 
| iso3          =
| iso3comment   =
| isoexception  =
| lc1           =
| ld1           =
| lc2           =
| ld2           =
| iso6          =
| glotto        =
| glottoname    =
| glotto2–5     =
| glottoname2–5 =
| linglist      =
| lingname      =
| linglist2/3   =
| lingname2/3   =
| lingua        =
| guthrie       =
| aiatsis       =
| aiatsisname   =
| aiatsis2–8    =
| aiatsisname2–8 =
| ietf =
| image         =
| imagesize     =
| imagealt      =
| imagecaption  =
| imageheader   =
| map           =
| mapsize       =
| mapalt        =
| mapcaption    =
| map2          =
| mapalt2       =
| mapcaption2   =
| boxsize       =
| notice        = 
| notice2       = 
| module        =
}}

Example

English
Pronunciation	/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
Region	(see below)
Native speakers	360 million (cited 2010) L2: 375 million and 750 million EFL
Language family en:Line-handling templates	هند۔يورپي Germanic West Germanic Anglo–Frisian Anglic English
Writing system en:Line-handling templates	English alphabet (Latin script)
Signed forms en:Line-handling templates	Manually coded English
Official status
Official language in	54 countries 27 non-sovereign entities United Nations European Union Commonwealth of Nations Council of Europe IOC NATO NAFTA OAS OECD OIC PIF UKUSA Agreement
Language codes
ISO 639-1	en
ISO 639-2	eng
ISO 639-3	eng
Linguasphere	52-ABA
Countries where English is the native language of the majority of the population   Countries where English is an official but not primary language

{{Infobox language
| name = English
| pronunciation = {{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɪ|ŋ|ɡ|l|ɪ|ʃ}}<ref>[http://www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com/dictionary/english_2 English Adjective] – Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary – Oxford University Press ©2010.</ref> |region = (see [[#Geographical distribution|below]])
| speakers = 360 million
| date = 2010
| dateprefix = cited 
| ref = <ref name=NE>[[Nationalencyklopedin]] "Världens 100 största språk 2010" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2010</ref>
| speakers2 = [[Second language|L2]]: 375 million and 750 million [[English as a foreign or second language|EFL]]<ref name=BritishCouncilEnglish>{{cite web |url=http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-elt-future.pdf |title=Future of English|accessdate=24 August 2011 |publisher=The British Council}} (page 10)</ref>
| familycolor = Indo-European
| fam2 = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
| fam3 = [[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]]
| fam4 = [[Anglo-Frisian languages|Anglo–Frisian]]
| fam5 = [[English languages|Anglic]]
| sign = [[Manually coded English]]
| script = [[English alphabet]] ([[Latin script]])
| nation = {{plainlist|
* [[List of countries where English is an official language#Sovereign states|54 countries]]
* [[List of countries where English is an official language#Non-sovereign entities|27 non-sovereign entities]]
* [[United Nations]]
* [[European Union]]
* [[Commonwealth of Nations]]
* [[Council of Europe]]
* [[International Olympic Committee|IOC]]
* [[NATO]]
* [[North American Free Trade Agreement|NAFTA]]
* [[Organization of American States|OAS]]
* [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development|OECD]]
* [[Organisation of Islamic Cooperation|OIC]]
* [[Pacific Islands Forum|PIF]]
* [[UKUSA Agreement]]}}
| iso1 = en
| iso2 = eng
| iso3 = eng
| lingua = 52-ABA
| map = Anglospeak.svg
| mapcaption = {{legend|#0000ff|Countries where English is the native language of the majority of the population}} {{legend|#8ddada|Countries where English is an official but not primary language}}
| notice = IPA
}}

References in infobox

Placement

The template should placed at the very top of the wikitext of the article, before any text. The absolute basic syntax is as shown below:

{{Infobox language ← this calls the template

| name = name of language ← the name of the language needs to be given

| familycolor = appropriate language family ← refer to the coloured chart to the right (or above, depending on your browser), and type the name shown there; this will add the appropriate family color to the template top.8 Using "Altaic" or "Caucasian" etc. does *not* result in a claim that the language belongs to that family: think of them as areal codings.

}} ← this ends the template call

*If you enter "isolate", you will be restricted to a single line for the family. In order to allow levels of classification, as with dialects of a language isolate, enter "grey"/"gray" instead.

However, you will probably want to add more than just this. Other parameters are listed below, they can be incorporated anywhere between the first and last lines, and in any order.

Additional parameters

There are several more parameters that can be defined between the opening and closing lines. These are:

| altname = additional name of the language [not every one, but one a reader would be likely to look for]

| nativename = native name, or a second alternative name [most cases as of 2012 not actually the native name]

| states = countries in which it is mainly spoken (multigenerational communities) ← you do not have to define both this and region. Do not use flag icons except for national or official status (WP:INFOBOXFLAG).

| region = geographic region in which it is mainly spoken ← you do not have to define both this and states; use this parameter for a single statement about geographic distribution. It is not for the broader region where the states are located, but rather the regions within the country, or across countries, where it is spoken. (That is, do not add SE Asia if we state it's in Laos, or West Africa if we state it's in Mali.)

| speakers = the number of native speakers of the language. If unknown, enter ⟨?⟩ and do not enter NA for the date (this causes the article to be listed in the Category:Language articles with speakers set to 'unknown', a hidden maintenance category). If no native speakers, enter ⟨none⟩. Otherwise, if no date is supplied, missing date will be displayed. Use {{sigfig|...|2}} to round to 2 significant figures while retaining the exact figure from the reference.

| date = the date of publication of the estimate of the number of speakers.

Used for calculations for obsolete data, so needs to start with a 4-digit year. Exception: If ⟨NA⟩ is entered, nothing will display. If ⟨no date⟩ is entered, "no date" will display. Do not enter a date parameter at all if speakers is set to ⟨none⟩.

Articles with old dates (currently ≥ 30 years) appear in Category:Language articles with old speaker data.

| ref = reference for the speaker data.

If ⟨e17⟩ is entered, this will automatically generate a reference to the Ethnologue 17 article that bears the ISO 639-3 code entered at 'iso3'.

To link to the auto-generated reference from elsewhere in the article, use <ref name=e17/>.

⟨e16⟩ and <ref name=e16/> or ⟨e15⟩ and <ref name=e15/> can be used to ref the 16th or 15th edition, for example for extinct languages which are no longer supported.

⟨linglist⟩ and <ref name=linglist/> can be used to ref the MultiTree entry at the Linguist List.

⟨ne2007/ne2010⟩ and <ref name=NE100/> can be used to ref the Swedish national encyclopedia, which we use for many of the world's top 100 languages

⟨inali⟩ and <ref name=INALI/> can be used to ref Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas

Similarly, aiatsis can be used to link to the <ref name=AIATSIS/> ref generated by the info box for the AIATSIS entry for Australian languages. (For Glottolog and Maho's edition of the Guthrie list for Bantu languages, <ref name=Glottolog(2–5)/> or <ref name=Guthrie/> needs to be added manually, as they do not provide population data.)

| speakers2 = a 2nd line for speaker data, such as L2 speakers, appearing after the date.

If this is a second line of L1 speakers, it should be arranged so that, if there are two dates cited, the oldest appears in the date parameter, for automated update calculations. Data from different countries should not be added together if they are not comparable: say if one is from 1973 and another from 2006, or if one is rounded to the nearest million and another is on the order of 10,000.

| iso1 = the ISO 639-1 code for the language

| iso2 = the ISO 639-2 code for the language; creates a link to the ISO page ← see just hereafter for the situation where a language has two ISO 639-2 codes

| iso3 = the ISO 639-3 code for the language; creates a link to the ISO page ← see below for the situation where multiple ISO 639-3 codes apply; if there is no ISO 639-3 code, set iso3=none to return the text none and add the article to a list of uncoded languages (if iso3comment is also used, that will display in place of none)

Only iso3 will appear (with a dash) if the code is omitted. If a language has two ISO 639-2 codes, one will be defined as the bibliographic code, and the other terminological. These can be added in separate fields using the following parameters:

| iso2b = the ISO 639-2 bibliographic code

| iso2t = the ISO 639-2 terminological code

| lingua = the Linguasphere code for the language

| linglist(2,3) = the Linguist List code(s) for the language. May be a proper ISO code maintained at Linguist List, or a local non-ISO code; creates a link to the Linguist List page.

| lingname(2,3) = the Linguist List name for the language, or other comment

| glotto(2–5) = the Glottolog code for the language. Generates a reference which can be accessed via name="Glottolog(2–5)". Enter "none" if Glottolog does not have a code for the language, "spurious" if Glottolog uses that term. [future: also "unattested"]

| glottoname(2–5) = the names to be used for the Glottolog reference(s). If there is more than one box on a page, then you need a different-numbered parameter for each, in order to generate separate footnotes.

| guthrie = the Guthrie code for Bantu languages. Generates a reference which can be accessed via name="Guthrie".

| aiatsis(2,3) = the AIATSIS code(s) for Australian languages. Generates a reference which can be accessed via name="AIATSIS".

| aiatsis(2,3)name = the AIATSIS name, if different from the entry at |name=.

| iso3comment = allows a comment in the ISO field that will not interfere with the link

| isoexception = handles exceptions to the handling of missing ISO codes; see details above.

| ietf = IETF language tag

| module = Used for embedding other infoboxes into this one.

Genetic classification

You can use the language template to show the genetic classification of a language at a glance. This classification is displayed as a descending staircase of language families, from the broadest to the most specific. To add the genetic classification use the following:

| fam1 = the broadest possible widely accepted language family of which the language is a part ← if this would be exactly the same as you have defined for familycolor, it may be omitted

| fam2 = a more specific sub-family

| fam3 = a more specific group

You can keep adding parameters in like fashion until you have completed the classification. If you would prefer to enter some other information in this box (for example, disputed), use this parameter instead:

| family = whatever you want to say (sequesters the repetition of the name of the language)

This can be set to "na" to avoid specifying a family relationship at all, an for a geographical group that has no single origin.

Ancestral forms may be useful when we have an article on them, or when they have been assigned ISO codes:

| ancestor = an ancestral form, such as Old English or Proto-Basque

| ancestor2/3 = intermediate ancestral forms, such as Middle English or Aquitanian

Optional parameters

Some parts of the template remain invisible unless they are specifically called. Only use these parameters if they are required.

| fontcolor = colour of font against 'familycolor' ← the font colour is usually black, use this to change it if it is difficult to read

| pronunciation = pronunciation of the native name of the language in IPA → remember to enclose the transcription in an IPA template such as {{IPA-all}}

| nation = list of countries in which it is an official language

| minority = list of countries in which it is a recognised minority language. This is intended for legal protection and similar de jure recognition, not simply being listed on a census and other de facto recognition.

| agency = regulatory body or language academy for the language

| extinct = date of extinction, or information about extinction ← this replaces speakers

| revived = date and/or population of attempted revival of extinct language

| revived-category = (or | revived-cat = ) optional name (without "Category:") of appropriate subcategory of Category:Language revival (which is used by default if |revived= has a value); can be given as | revived-category = nocat to suppress the categorization entirely, when the language has a separate article about its revival that is already in the category (e.g. Cornish revival is in Category:Celtic language revival, so | is used in the infobox at Cornish language).

| era = era of use of an ancestral form of a language ← this replaces speakers

| script = writing system(s) used to represent the language ← in the form script (instantiation), such as "Latin (English alphabet)"
(Common variants of "Latin (alphabet)" redirect to Latin script. For the Latin alphabet itself, add an element such as  .)

Language with more than one ISO 639-3 code

Some languages have a number of ISO 639-3 codes, one for each dialect of that language. If you try putting all of these codes in the usual iso3 = parameter, it will get quite messy. Instead, use the following parameters:

| lc1 = language code of the first dialect

| ld1 = name of the first language dialect

For subsequent dialects, use lc2 and so forth. Lc entries will be automatically linked to the Ethnologue site. Wikipedia articles on the dialects may be linked from the ld entries..

For languages with an ISO 639-3 macrolanguage code and several individual codes, use iso3 for the macrolanguage and lcn, ldn for the individual codes.

Constructed languages

This template is appropriate to use for constructed languages. The following parameters can be used:

| creator = name of language creator

| created = year of first creation

| setting = the use or setting for the language

| posteriori = natural-language sources

Using these parameters, or setting familycolor=Conlang, automatically sets the coloured bars of the infobox to black background with white fonts, and removes the states and region parameters from use (nation is also disabled). If the iso2 parameter is left undefined, it is treated as being iso2=art. For conlangs, the family or famn parameters are used to describe the hierarchy of purpose of the language, whereas posteriori is used to describe the a posteriori sources on which the conlang draws.

Images in the template

You should not put large images at the top of the language template: they just make it very messy. You can place a small image at the top of the template using the following parameters:

| image = image name.png

| imagesize = 100px ← overrides the default image size

| imagealt = alt text

| imagecaption = caption

| imageheader = very simple description of image ('logo', 'map', 'script', etc.) ← this is placed in the left-hand column, and so needs to be short

If you have a larger image or two, such as a map, you can place them at the bottom of the template, spanning both columns, with the following parameter:

| map(2) = image name.png

| mapsize = 300px ← overrides the default image size

| mapalt(2) = alt text

| mapcaption(2) = caption

The usual image markup applies for both images. Alt text is for visually impaired readers, and the caption is for all readers; typically they should have little in common (see WP:ALT).

Footer notice

A notice or notices may be placed at the bottom of the infobox:

| notice=ipa ← places a notice about the Unicode fonts used for displaying IPA

Sub-templates

1. Template:Infobox language/codelist
2. Template:Infobox language/family-color
3. Template:Infobox language/genetic
4. Template:Infobox language/linguistlist
5. Template:Infobox language/ref
6. Template:Infobox language/quilt

Error-tracking categories

With 8,000 articles, manual review is insufficient. The following automating tracking categories should catch some of the more common errors. They also produce lists of articles that should be reviewed occasionally, because they lack population data or the data is dated.

ISO support

• Category:Languages without ISO 639-3 code – [iso3=] is set to 'none', as it is not (yet) included in ISO. May have other codes.
  • Category:Conlangs without ISO 639-3 code (subcat: most conlangs do not qualify for ISO)
  • Category:Nonexistent E17 links (setting [iso3=none] and [ref=e17] generates an invalid reference)
• Category:Language articles without language codes – no language code listed, but not specifically excluded from ISO with [iso3=none]
  • Category:Languages without ISO 639-3 code but with Linguist List code
    • subcat Category:Dialects with Linguist List code – LingList codes some dialects with sub-ISO codes as "xxx-yyy"
  • Category:Languages without ISO 639-3 code but with Linguasphere code
  • Category:Languages without ISO 639-3 code but with AIATSIS code
  • Category:Languages without ISO 639-3 code but with Guthrie code
  • Category:Dialects of languages with ISO 639-3 code (a normal exception, triggered by isoexception=dialect)
  • Category:Historical forms of languages with ISO codes (a normal exception, triggered by isoexception=historical)
  • Category:Protolanguages without ISO codes (a normal exception, triggered by isoexception=protolanguage)
• Category:Languages which need ISO 639-3 comment – triggered by [lc1=] without [lc2=] (once used as a way to provide comments; occasionally still appropriate with [iso3=] when a second but redundant ISO code is included)
• Category:Languages with ISO 639-2 code (sometimes the 639-3 code is mistakenly copied into the iso2 field)
• Category:Languages with ISO 639-1 code

Speaker and date issues

• Category:Language articles without speaker estimate – no entry under [speakers=], and not extinct, a sign language, or a conlang
• Category:Language articles with invalid population dates – entry error at [date=] (anything other than a 4-digit number at start)
• Category:Language articles with speaker number undated – no entry at [date=]
  • Category:Language articles with 'no date' set – [date=no date], used when the source lacks a date
  • Category:Language articles with NA population dates – [date=NA], used when a date does not apply
• Category:Language articles with old speaker data (currently set to > 25 years)
• Category:Language articles without reference field
• Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 16
• Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 15
• Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 14

Classification

• Category:Language articles with spurious family (generally because [fam1=] is autofilled from [familycolor] to 'American', 'Australian', 'Papuan', 'Khoisan', 'Caucasian', 'Andamanese', or 'Paleosiberian')
• Category:Languages without family color codes – no or invalid familycolor
• Category:Languages without classification – family displayed as 'unknown' (sometimes triggered by SLs or conlangs)

Other

• Category:Language articles needing infoboxes (manual cat: switch off (to "no") if you judge the article does not need one)
• Category:Ill-formatted infobox-language images – images need to be stripped of external file formatting
• Category:Language articles with unsupported infobox fields (detects any parameter not in the list, incl. for now anything over dia20)

See also

• Template:Infobox language family

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template so it can be used with the new VisualEditor.

Display data about a language in a standard format

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers block formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Name	name	The English name of the language	String	required
Alternative name	altname	An alternative or additional English name of the language	String	optional
Native name	nativename	The native name of the language	String	optional
Pronunciation	pronunciation	The IPA pronunciation of the native name of the language	String	optional
States	states state	States or countries in which the language is mainly spoken	String	optional
Region	region	The geographic region(s) in which the language is mainly spoken	String	optional
Latitude (degrees)	latd	The latitudinal measure in degrees of the center of the language's geographic region	Number	optional
Latitude (minutes)	latm	The latitudinal measure in minutes of the center of the language's geographic region	Number	optional
Latitude (North/South)	latNS	The direction of the latitude coordinates	String	optional
Longitude (degrees)	longd	The longitudinal measure in degrees of the center of the language's geographic region	Number	optional
Longitude (minutes)	longm	The longitudinal measure in minutes of the center of the language's geographic region	Number	optional
Longitude (East/West)	longEW	The direction of the longitude coordinates	String	optional
Ethnicity	ethnicity	The ethnic group(s) whose native language this is	String	optional
Speakers	speakers	The number of native speakers/signers of the language (will be rounded to 2 significant figures)	Number	optional
Extinction	extinct	The date of the language's extinction or other information about extinction	String	optional
Revival	revived	Date and/or population of attempted revival of extinct language	String	optional
revived-category	revived-category	optional name of appropriate subcategory of [[:Category:Language revival]] (which is used by default if {{para|revived}} has a value); or <code>nocat</code> to suppress categorization	String	optional
Era	era	The era of a historical language's use	String	optional
Date	date	The date of the stated estimate of the number of speakers, starting with a 4-digit year	String	optional
Date prefix	dateprefix	Additional information about the date of estimation of the number of speakers, placed in parentheses before the date	String	optional
Reference	ref	A reference for the number of speakers, placed after the date, if any	String	optional
Speakers 2	speakers2	A second line giving more information about the number of speakers, such as a second estimate	String	optional
Language Family Color	familycolor	The appropriate language family for the purposes of determining the background color, chosen from a fixed set given in the documentation	String	required
Language Family	fam1	The broadest accepted language family the language belongs to	String	optional
Language Family 2	fam2	A more specific sub-language family that the language belongs to	String	optional
Language Family 3	fam3	A more specific sub-language family that the language belongs to	String	optional
Language Family 4	fam4	A more specific sub-language family that the language belongs to	String	optional
Language Family 5	fam5	A more specific sub-language family that the language belongs to	String	optional
Language Family 6	fam6	A more specific sub-language family that the language belongs to	String	optional
Language Family 7	fam7	A more specific sub-language family that the language belongs to	String	optional
Language Family 8	fam8	A more specific sub-language family that the language belongs to	String	optional
Language Family 9	fam9	A more specific sub-language family that the language belongs to	String	optional
Language Family 10	fam10	A more specific sub-language family that the language belongs to	String	optional
Language Family 11	fam11	A more specific sub-language family that the language belongs to	String	optional
Language Family 12	fam12	A more specific sub-language family that the language belongs to	String	optional
Language Family 13	fam13	A more specific sub-language family that the language belongs to	String	optional
Language Family 14	fam14	A more specific sub-language family that the language belongs to	String	optional
Language Family 15	fam15	A more specific sub-language family that the language belongs to	String	optional
Family	family	Overrides all other family parameters, displays whatever you want	String	optional
Ancestor	ancestor	An ancestral or reconstructed form of the language	String	optional
Ancestor 2	ancestor2	An ancestral or reconstructed form of the language	String	optional
Ancestor 3	ancestor3	An ancestral or reconstructed form of the language	String	optional
Creator	creator	For constructed languages, the name of the creator	String	optional
Creation date	created	Creation date for constructed languages	String	optional
Setting	setting	The fictional setting or other usage of a constructed language	String	optional
Posteriori	posteriori	Natural languages used as sources for a constructed language	String	optional
Dialect	dia1	A primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 2	dia2	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 3	dia3	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 4	dia4	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 5	dia5	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 6	dia6	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 7	dia7	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 8	dia8	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 9	dia9	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 10	dia10	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 11	dia11	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 12	dia12	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 13	dia13	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 14	dia14	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 15	dia15	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 16	dia16	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 17	dia17	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 18	dia18	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 19	dia19	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialect 20	dia20	Another primary dialect of the language	String	optional
Dialects	dialects	Overrides all other dialect parameters, just displays the argument	String	optional
Standardized Register	stand1	A standardized register of the language	String	optional
Standardized Register 2	stand2	Another standardized register of the language	String	optional
Standardized Register 3	stand3	Another standardized register of the language	String	optional
Standardized Register 4	stand4	Another standardized register of the language	String	optional
Standardized Register 5	stand5	Another standardized register of the language	String	optional
Standardized Register 6	stand6	Another standardized register of the language	String	optional
Standardized Registers	standards	Overrides all other standardized register parameters, displays the argument	String	optional
Script	script	The writing system(s) that literate speakers use for the language	String	optional
Nations	nation	A list of countries in which it is an official language	String	optional
Minority Status	minority	A list of countries in which it is a recognized minority language	String	optional
Agency	agency	The regulatory body or language academy for the language	String	optional
ISO 639-1	iso1	The ISO 639-1 code for the language	String	optional
ISO 639-2	iso2	The ISO 639-2 code for the language (but not the language family)	String	optional
ISO 639-2 Bibliographic	iso2b	The ISO 639-2 bibliographic code for the language	String	optional
ISO 639-2 Terminological	iso2t	The ISO 639-2 terminological code for the language	String	optional
ISO 639-3	iso3	The ISO 639-3 code for the language, can be 'none' or 'linglist'	String	optional
ISO 639-3 Comment	iso3comment	Any comments about the ISO 639-3 code, so as not to interfere with the link	String	optional
ISO Exception	isoexception	Used for cleanup categories, excludes from the general 'missing language code' category if set to 'dialect', 'historical', 'protolanguage', or 'talkpage'	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639	lc1	The ISO 639 code of the first dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name	ld1	The name of the first dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 2	lc2	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 2	ld2	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 3	lc3	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 3	ld3	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 4	lc4	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 4	ld4	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 5	lc5	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 5	ld5	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 6	lc6	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 6	ld6	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 7	lc7	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 7	ld7	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 8	lc8	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 8	ld8	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 9	lc9	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 9	ld9	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 10	lc10	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 10	ld10	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 11	lc11	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 11	ld11	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 12	lc12	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 12	ld12	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 13	lc13	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 13	ld13	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 14	lc14	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 14	ld14	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 15	lc15	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 15	ld15	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 16	lc16	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 16	ld16	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 17	lc17	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 17	ld17	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 18	lc18	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 18	ld18	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 19	lc19	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 19	ld19	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 20	lc20	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 20	ld20	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 21	lc21	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 21	ld21	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 22	lc22	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 22	ld22	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 23	lc23	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 23	ld23	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 24	lc24	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 24	ld24	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 25	lc25	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 25	ld25	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 26	lc26	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 26	ld26	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 27	lc27	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 27	ld27	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 28	lc28	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 28	ld28	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 29	lc29	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 29	ld29	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 30	lc30	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 30	ld30	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 31	lc31	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 31	ld31	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 32	lc32	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 32	ld32	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 33	lc33	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 33	ld33	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 34	lc34	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 34	ld34	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 35	lc35	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 35	ld35	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 36	lc36	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 36	ld36	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 37	lc37	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 37	ld37	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 38	lc38	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 38	ld38	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 39	lc39	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 39	ld39	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 40	lc40	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 40	ld40	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 41	lc41	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 41	ld41	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 42	lc42	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 42	ld42	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 43	lc43	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 43	ld43	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 44	lc44	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 44	ld44	The name of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect ISO 639 45	lc45	The ISO 639 code of another dialect	String	optional
Dialect Name 45	ld45	The name of another dialect	String	optional
ISO 639-6	iso6	The ISO 639-6 code for the language	String	optional
Linguist List	linglist	The Linguist List ISO 639-3 private or local code or other substitute, range qaa-qtz or numerals only	String	optional
Linguist List Comment	lingname	Any comments on the Linguist List code	String	optional
Linguist List 2	linglist2	An additional Linguist List code	String	optional
Linguist List Comment 2	lingname2	An additional comment on the Linguist List code	String	optional
Linguist List 3	linglist3	An additional Linguist List code	String	optional
Linguist List Comment 3	lingname3	An additional comment on the Linguist List code	String	optional
Linguasphere	lingua	The Linguasphere code for the language	String	optional
Guthrie	guthrie	The Guthrie code for Bantu languages	String	optional
AIATSIS	aiatsis	The AIATSIS code for Australian languages	String	optional
AIATSIS Comment	aiatsisname	Any comments on the AIATSIS code	String	optional
AIATSIS 2	aiatsis2	An additional AIATSIS code	String	optional
AIATSIS Comment 2	aiatsisname2	An additional comment on the AIATSIS code	String	optional
AIATSIS 3	aiatsis3	An additional AIATSIS code	String	optional
AIATSIS Comment 3	aiatsisname3	An additional comment on the AIATSIS code	String	optional
AIATSIS 4	aiatsis4	An additional AIATSIS code	String	optional
AIATSIS Comment 4	aiatsisname4	An additional comment on the AIATSIS code	String	optional
AIATSIS 5	aiatsis5	An additional AIATSIS code	String	optional
AIATSIS Comment 5	aiatsisname5	An additional comment on the AIATSIS code	String	optional
AIATSIS 6	aiatsis6	An additional AIATSIS code	String	optional
AIATSIS Comment 6	aiatsisname6	An additional comment on the AIATSIS code	String	optional
AIATSIS 7	aiatsis7	An additional AIATSIS code	String	optional
AIATSIS Comment 7	aiatsisname7	An additional comment on the AIATSIS code	String	optional
AIATSIS 8	aiatsis8	An additional AIATSIS code	String	optional
AIATSIS Comment 8	aiatsisname8	An additional comment on the AIATSIS code	String	optional
IETF	ietf	IETF language tag	String	optional
Image	image	The image to display at the top of the infobox, in the format 'image name.png' without 'File:' or brackets	String	optional
Image Size	imagesize	Overrides the default image size, using units of 'px' or 'em'	String	optional
Image Alt Text	imagealt	The alt (hover) text for the image	String	optional
Image Caption	imagecaption	A caption to display under the image	String	optional
Image Header	imageheader	A brief header for the image to display in the left hand column	String	optional
Map	map	The image to display at the bottom of the infobox, in the format 'image name.png' without 'File:' or brackets	String	optional
Map Size	mapsize	Overrides the default image size for the map, using units of 'px' or 'em'	String	optional
Map Alt Text	mapalt	The alt (hover) text for the map	String	optional
Map Caption	mapcaption	A caption to display under the map	String	optional
Map 2	map2	A second map to display at the bottom of the infobox, in the format 'image name.png' without 'File:' or brackets	String	optional
Map Alt Text 2	mapalt2	The alt (hover) text the second map	String	optional
Map Caption 2	mapcaption2	A caption to display under both maps	String	optional
Infobox Size	boxsize	Overrides the default width of the infobox, using units of 'px' or 'em' (it automatically expands to fit images wider than the default width)	String	optional
IPA Notice	notice	Set to 'IPA' or 'ipa' to display a notice that the article contains special IPA phonetic symbols	String	optional

Tracking/maintenance categories

• Category:Language articles with unsupported infobox fields (via Module:Check for unknown parameters)
• Category:Articles citing AIATSIS
• Category:Articles citing INALI
• Category:Articles citing Linguist List
• Category:Articles citing Maho/Guthrie
• Category:Articles citing Nationalencyklopedin
• Category:Articles opting out of population reference
• Category:Articles with unnamed Glottolog code
• Category:Conlangs without ISO 639-3 code
• Category:Dialect articles with speakers set to 'unknown'
• Category:Dialects of languages with ISO 639-3 code
• Category:Dialects with Linguist List code
• Category:Extinct ISO language articles citing sources other than Ethnologue
• Category:Historical forms of languages with ISO codes
• Category:Ill-formatted infobox-language images
• Category:ISO language articles citing sources other than Ethnologue
• Category:Language articles missing Glottolog code
• Category:Language articles with invalid population dates
• Category:Language articles with NA population dates
• Category:Language articles with 'no date' set
• Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 18 speaker data
• Category:Language articles with old speaker data
• Category:Language articles with speaker number undated
• Category:Language articles with speakers set to 'none'
• Category:Language articles with speakers set to 'unknown'
• Category:Language articles with unknown extinction date
• Category:Language articles with unknown population not citing Ethnologue 18
• Category:Language articles with unreferenced extinction date
• Category:Language articles without language codes
• Category:Language articles without reference field
• Category:Language articles without speaker estimate
• Category:Languages rejected by Glottolog
• Category:Languages which need ISO 639-3 comment
• Category:Languages with ISO 639-1 code
• Category:Languages with ISO 639-2 code
• Category:Languages with neither ISO nor Glottolog code
• Category:Languages without classification
• Category:Languages without family color codes
• Category:Languages without Glottolog code
• Category:Languages without ISO 639-3 code
• Category:Languages without ISO 639-3 code but with AIATSIS code
• Category:Languages without ISO 639-3 code but with Glottolog code
• Category:Languages without ISO 639-3 code but with Guthrie code
• Category:Languages without ISO 639-3 code but with Linguasphere code
• Category:Languages without ISO 639-3 code but with Linguist List code
• Category:Nonexistent E18 links
• Category:Protolanguages without ISO codes
• Category:Language articles with IETF language tag