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Usage

Template {{Lang-x}} indicates to readers the original form of a term or phrase in a foreign language. The term or phrase is the only mandatory parameter. The text is formatted according to recommendations in Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Foreign terms (italics for Latin-script languages, regular for others).

The template should generally be placed after the English translation of the foreign term or phrase.

The parameter |links=no prevents the language name from being linked.

The parameter |lit= enables a literal translation to be given. It is being rolled out to these templates and so may be available for {{Lang-x}}.

Examples

The following examples show translations from German.

Edit

  • Weimar is located in the federal state of Thuringia ({{Lang-de|Thüringen}}).
  • The Seafarers of Catan ({{Lang-de|Die Seefahrer von Catan}}) is an expansion of the board game The Settlers of Catan.
  • Albert the Bear ({{Lang-de|Albrecht der Bär|links=no}})
  • All Quiet on the Western Front ({{Lang-de|Im Westen nichts Neues|lit=In the West Nothing New}}) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

Resulting text

  • Weimar is located in the federal state of Thuringia (German: [Thüringen] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help)).
  • The Seafarers of Catan (German: [Die Seefahrer von Catan] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) is an expansion of the board game The Settlers of Catan.
  • Albert the Bear (German: [Albrecht der Bär] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help))
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (German: [Im Westen nichts Neues] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help), lit. 'In the West Nothing New') is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

See also

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

TemplateData for Lang-x

<templatedata> { "params": { "1": { "label": "Text", "description": "The foreign text to display.", "type": "string", "required": true }, "links": { "label": "Display link", "description": "Set to no to disable the link to the article's language.", "type": "boolean" }, "lit": { "label": "Literal translation" } }, "description": "Indicates to readers the original form of a term or phrase in a foreign language." } </templatedata>