Template:In lang

(in British English)

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Template:In lang is used to denote that a text source is written in a specific language.

For citations using a citation template ({{cite web}}, {{cite news}}, {{cite journal}}, etc.), that template's |language= parameter should be used instead.

To note a span of text in a different language, {{lang}} or one of the {{[[Template:lang-x|lang-x]]}} templates ({{lang-fr}}, {{lang-ast}}, etc.) should be used instead.

Usage

Typical use of this template is inside ‎<ref>...‎</ref> tags where the reference is not templated and the referenced source is non-English:

<ref>[https://www.example.com "Non English Journal Article"]. ''Non-English Journal''. '''12'''(3): 231–241 {{in lang|xx}}</ref>

Also finds use in External links sections to mark non-English link-targets:

[https://www.example.com Non English external link] {{in lang|xx}}

This template does not markup non-English text. For that, use {{lang}} or an appropriate {{lang-??}} template.

Parameters

This template accepts one or more positional language-tag parameters (<tag>) and two named parameters:

• {{In lang|<tag>|<tag2>|...|link=|cap=}}

Most common use is a single language:

• {{In lang|de}} → (in German)

The positional parameters

• <tag> – required; <tag> is a valid ISO-639 language tag or a valid IETF language tag; more than one language tag supported:
  • {{In lang|cs|en|de|fr|es|ca-valencia|pl|ru|ja|zh}} →
    • (in Czech, English, German, French, Spanish, Valencian, Polish, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese)

The named parameters are:

• link – accepts the single value yes; creates link to language article
  • {{In lang|nv|link=yes}} → <span class="languageicon">(in [[Navajo language|Navajo]])</span> → (in Navajo)
• cap – accepts the single value yes; capitalizes the first letter of "In":
  • {{In lang|pt-BR|cap=yes}} → (In Brazilian Portuguese)

Error messages

This template has one error message of its own:

error: {{In lang}} missing language tag – displayed when the template is transcluded without an ISO 639 language tag or IETF language tag.

All other error messages related to the use of this template are emitted by Module:Lang and are documented at Category:Lang and lang-xx template errors.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:In lang in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for In lang

Produces the phrase "(in LANGUAGE)" with language codes.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
1	1	no description	Unknown	optional
2	2	no description	Unknown	optional
3	3	no description	Unknown	optional
4	4	no description	Unknown	optional

Categories

Transclusions in mainspace articles will add the article to the appropriate subcategory of Category:Articles with non-English-language sources. There are two forms of these subcategories:

Category:Articles with <language name>-language sources (<tag>) – for individual languages and for macrolanguages

Category:Articles with sources in <collective name> languages (<tag>) – for language collectives

where <language name> and <collective name> is the name used in the template's rendering and <tag> is the ISO 639 tag or IETF language tag.

References

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:In lang/doc. (edit | history)
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