Template:Language

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When transcluded or used in namespaces highlighted with orange text this template returns language shortcut based on language prefix of the page otherwise it returns the shortcut based on user's interface language.

Templates Template:pagelang or Template:intlang are substituted in the subpages which are named after each namespace number

• Special namespace: Template:Language/-1 - only usable here: Special:ExpandTemplates
• (main) namespace: Template:Language/0
• Talk namespace: Template:Language/1
• User namespace: Template:Language/2 - checks for existence of User:{{ROOTPAGENAME}}/language and uses that as language if it exists else interface language
• User talk namespace: Template:Language/3 - checks for existence of User:{{ROOTPAGENAME}}/language and uses that as language if it exists else interface language
• Valve Developer Community namespace: Template:Language/4
• Valve Developer Community talk namespace: Template:Language/5
• File namespace: Template:Language/6
• File talk namespace: Template:Language/7
• MediaWiki namespace: Template:Language/8 - does nothing, just gives empty string
• MediaWiki talk namespace: Template:Language/9
• Template namespace: Template:Language/10 - returns current subpage if it's valid language shortcut used in LanguageBar else returns interface language
• Template talk namespace: Template:Language/11
• Help namespace: Template:Language/12
• Help talk namespace: Template:Language/13
• Category namespace: Template:Language/14
• Category talk namespace: Template:Language/15

Language prefix:

• {{language}} used or transcluded on page Hu/Info_target becomes hu
• {{language}} used or transcluded on page Category:Vi/Level Design becomes vi
• {{language}} used or transcluded on page Help:Eo/Contents becomes eo
• {{language}} used or transcluded on page Dota_2_Workshop_Tools/Addon_Overview/Addon_Creation becomes en
• {{language}} used or transcluded on page Ja/Dota_2_Workshop_Tools/Addon_Overview/Addon_Creation becomes ja

Example use in templates or in namespaces where language is determined by interface language (those not highlighted with orange):

{{#switch: {{language}}
    | #default = English
    | ja = 日本語
    | zh-tw = 中文（台灣）
    }}

See Also

• {{#switch}}
• {{LanguageBar}}
• Project:Alternative Languages

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Language/doc. (Düzenle | Sayfa geçmişi)
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