Template:Lang
Template DocumentationThe purpose of this template is to indicate that a span of text belongs to a particular language.
Usage
{{lang|language tag|text}}
The language tag should consist of an ISO 639 language code.
The ISO 639 language code is a two- or three-letter abbreviation, in lowercase, of the language's name. Japanese, for example, has the code ja:
{{lang|ja|蓬莱山輝夜}}→ 蓬莱山輝夜
Meaning of the template
The same word or character has different fonts in different countries and regions. Expecially in Chinese character culture circle of East Asia for the following example.
- If you see that the glyphs of the same line of words in the following example are exactly the same, your browser version might be too old.
Or the default font compatibility of the website is poor.
| General meaning of the character | Chinese Simplify (Mainland China) | Chinese Traditional (Taiwan) | Japanese | Korean |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| bone | 骨 | 骨 | 骨 | 骨 |
| send | 送 | 送 | 送 | 送 |
| shine | 耀 | 耀 | 耀 | 耀 |
Common language code list
- ATTENTION: Standard ISO 639-3 is incompatible with some fonts, please use it with caution.
| Names of languages and their variants | Language code | |
|---|---|---|
| ISO 639-1 | ISO 639-3 | |
| Chinese | zh |
zho
|
| Simplified Chinese | zh-Hans |
zho-Hans
|
| Traditional Chinese | zh-Hant |
zho-Hant
|
| Chinese (Mainland China) | zh-CN |
zho-CN
|
| Chinese (Taiwan) | zh-TW |
zho-TW
|
| Chinese (Hong Kong) | zh-HK |
zho-HK
|
| English | en |
eng
|
| Chuang (Zhuang) | za |
zha
|
| Tibetan | bo |
bod
|
| Mongolian | mn |
mon
|
| Uyghur | ug |
uig
|
| Yue Chinese (Cantonese) | - | yue
|
| Korean | ko |
kor
|
| Japanese | ja |
jpn
|
| Thai | th |
tha
|
| Arabic | ar |
ara
|
| Hindi | hi |
hin
|
| Names of languages and their variants | Language code | |
|---|---|---|
| ISO 639-1 | ISO 639-3 | |
| Indonesian | id |
ind
|
| Russian | ru |
rus
|
| Spanish | es |
spa
|
| Portuguese | pt |
por
|
| French | fr |
fra
|
| German | de |
deu
|
| Italian | it |
ita
|
| Polish | pl |
pol
|
| Ukrainian | uk |
ukr
|
| Turkish | tr |
tur
|
| Serbian | sr |
srp
|
| Danish | da |
dan
|
| Sanskrit | sa |
san
|
| Siddhaṃ script | sa-Sidd |
san-Sidd
|
| Greek | el |
ell
|
| Ancient Greek (to 1453) | - | grc
|
| Latin | la |
lat
|
- For more language code, you can go to Wikipedia or SIL International to search for.
