Template:Lang/doc

The 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.

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