Template:Language
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| English name Native name | |
| Spoken in: | (country) |
| Timeline/Universe: | (universe) |
| Total speakers: | (number of speakers) |
| Genealogical classification: | (Family)
|
| Basic word order: | |
| Morphological type: | |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | |
| Created by: | |
| author | date |
Named parameters for this template
This template recognises the following named parameters:
Legend:
- parameter name
-
- [alternate parameter name]
- explanation
Parameter names are lowercase by default, although English may be Uppercase
- english
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- English
- The English name of the language, e.g. Swedish.
- native
- The native name of the language, e.g. Svenska.
- country
- The name of the country where the language is spoken, e.g. Sweden.
- native-country
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- nativecountry
- The native name of the country (if different from country), e.g. Sverige.
- universe
- The name of the universe or timeline where the language is spoken, e.g. Real world.
- speakers
- The number of speakers of the language, e.g. 9 million.
- family
- The name of the language family the language belongs to, e.g. Indo-European.
- branch
- The name of the branch within its language family the language belongs to, e.g. Germanic.
- subbranch
- The name of the subbranch within its language family the language belongs to, e.g. North Germanic.
- word-order
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- wordorder
- The basic word order type of the language, e.g. SVO (although Swedish is rather V2! ☺)
- morphological-type
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- type
- The basic morphological type of the language, e.g. inflecting.
- morphosyntactic-alignment
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- alignment
- The basic morphosyntactic alignment of the language, e.g. Nominative-Accusative.
- author
- The name of the author of the language (probably your name).
- date
- The date when the language was created (begun or completed), usually abbreviated to the year.
Optional data parameters
- dialect native
- the native name of the dialect, if the article is about a dialect rather than about a language.
- dialect english
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- dialect English
- the English name of the dialect if the article is about a dialect rather than about a language.
Optional formatting parameters
- background-color
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- background
- The background color of the table (default value: #f9f9f9).
- heading-background
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- headingbg
- The background color of the heading cells (default value: #CCCCCC).
- width
- The width of the table; defaults to 50% of window width, but can be defined in pixels (e.g. 300) or a percentage of the window width (e.g. 33%)
Example
(I choose a real-world example so that everyone will recognise everything!)
Use {{subst:Template:Language-new}}!
| Swedish Svenska | |
| Spoken in: | Sweden (Sverige) |
| Timeline/Universe: | Real world |
| Total speakers: | 9 million |
| Genealogical classification: | Indo-European
|
| Basic word order: | SVO/V2 |
| Morphological type: | inflecting |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | nominative-accusative |
| Created by: | |
| unknown | 1000 C.E. |
{{Language|
| English = Swedish
| native = Svenska
| country = Sweden
| nativecountry = Sverige
| universe = Real world
| speakers = 9 million
| family = Indo-European
| branch = Germanic
| subbranch = North Germanic
| wordorder = SVO/V<sub>2</sub>
| type = inflecting
| alignment = nominative-accusative
| author = unknown
| date = 1000 C.E.
| background = white
| headingbg = coral
| width = 33%
}}
Example of a dialect
| Gothenburgish Göteborgska | |
| Spoken in: | Sweden (Sverige) |
| Timeline/Universe: | Real world |
| Total speakers: | 9 million |
| Genealogical classification: | Indo-European
|
| Basic word order: | SVO/V2 |
| Morphological type: | inflecting |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | nominative-accusative |
| Created by: | |
| unknown | 1650 C.E. |
{{Language|
| English = Swedish
| native = Svenska
| dialect native = Göteborgska
| dialect english = Gothenburgish
| country = Sweden
| nativecountry = Sverige
| universe = Real world
| speakers = 9 million
| family = Indo-European
| branch = Germanic
| subbranch = North Germanic
| wordorder = SVO/V<sub>2</sub>
| type = inflecting
| alignment = nominative-accusative
| author = unknown
| date = 1650 C.E.
| background = white
| headingbg = coral
| width = 33%
}}
