Template:LangSwitch

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Goal

This template will show texts in different languages depending on the language of the page it is placed on. It is mainly meant for use in templates.

The language the text will be shown in depends on the two letter language code between the page namespace and the page title, for example Talk:De/HB Radio-NAV. If a parameter with a text is not available in the language of the page or is empty, the English text will be shown instead provided it is available.

Usage

The parameters of this template corresponds to the ISO 639-1 two letter language code for the language to be used in that parameter.

{{LangSwitch |de= |en= |es= |fr= |nl= |ru=}}

{{LangSwitch
|de = 
|en = 
|es = 
|fr = 
|nl = 
|ru = 
}}

Examples of language codes

ISO 639-1 two letter code	English name of language
ca	Catalan
de	German
en	English
es	Spanish
fa	Farsi
fi	Finnish
fr	French
nl	Dutch
pl	Polish
pt	Portugese
ru	Russian
sv	Swedish
zh	Chinese

Known issues

Using equal signs inside template parameters will break the template. Two ways around this is to either use {{=}} or <nowiki>=</nowiki>.

Related content

• Help:Templates#Translating templates
• Category:Language templates