Template:Lang-x/doc
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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.
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- 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
- {{Lang}}, and its opposite, {{Language with name/for}}
- {{Link language}}
- {{ icon}}
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>
