Template:Language

English name Native name
Spoken in:	(country)
Conworld:	(universe)
Total speakers:	(number of speakers)
Genealogical classification:	(Family) (Branch) (Subbranch) (Language)
Basic word order:
Morphological type:
Morphosyntactic alignment:
Writing system:
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

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

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

wordorder

The basic word order type of the language, e.g. SVO (although Swedish is rather V₂! ☺)

morphological-type

type

The basic morphological type of the language, e.g. inflecting.

morphosyntactic-alignment

alignment

The basic morphosyntactic alignment of the language, e.g. Nominative-Accusative.

writing-system

writing

The writing sytem used by the language.

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

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

background

The background color of the table (default value: #f9f9f9).

heading-background

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)
Conworld:	Real world
Total speakers:	9 million
Genealogical classification:	Indo-European Germanic North Germanic Swedish
Basic word order:	SVO/V2
Morphological type:	inflecting
Morphosyntactic alignment:	nominative-accusative
Writing system:	Latin alphabet
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
| writing = Latin alphabet
| author = unknown
| date = 1000 C.E.
| background = white
| headingbg = coral
| width = 33%
}}

Example of a dialect

Gothenburgish Göteborgska
Spoken in:	Sweden (Sverige)
Conworld:	Real world
Total speakers:	9 million
Genealogical classification:	Indo-European Germanic North Germanic Swedish Gothenburgish (Göteborgska)
Basic word order:	SVO/V2
Morphological type:	inflecting
Morphosyntactic alignment:	nominative-accusative
Writing system:	Latin alphabet
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
| writing = Latin alphabet
| author = unknown
| date = 1650 C.E.
| background = white
| headingbg = coral
| width = 33%
}}