Module:Lang/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Module:Lang
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original module page.

This Lua module is used on many pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the module's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own module sandbox. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This module depends on the following other modules:

This module exists primarily to provide correct html markup for non–English language text where that text is used in the English Wikipedia. It has a secondary purpose of providing correct visual rendering for this non-English text. The module was developed to consolidate processing for {{Lang}}, the {{lang-??}} (most), and {{Transl}} templates into a single source and to use a clearly defined data set extracted from international standards. It provides error checking and reporting to ensure that the html rendered is correct for browsers and screen readers.

Other templates that get language name support from this module are:

{{Native name}}

Data set

The data set is specified in Module:Lang/data and its included data modules:

language tag-and-name data
- Module:Language/data/iana languages – from IANA language-subtag-registry file
language script data
- Module:Language/data/iana scripts – from IANA language-subtag-registry file
language region data
- Module:Language/data/iana regions – from IANA language-subtag-registry file
language variant data
- Module:Language/data/iana variants – from IANA language-subtag-registry file
suppressed-script data
- Module:Language/data/iana suppressed scripts – from IANA language-subtag-registry file

The data set also includes supplementary data modules:

override and other non-standard data
- Module:Lang/ISO 639 synonyms – maps three character ISO 639-2, -2T, -3 codes to two character ISO 639-1 codes – from Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages
- Module:Lang/tag from name – reversed language tag-and-name data so that the language name is the key and the language tag is the value

Module:Lang/doc

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Data set

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Tracking categories

See also

Language templates
Language names (ISO 639)
{{ISO 639 name}}
Interwiki links
{{Wikt-lang}} Module:Language {{Interlanguage link}}
Foreign-language text
{{Lang}} Module:Lang {{Transliteration}} {{Title language}} {{PIE}} (Proto-Indo-European language content)
Other
{{IPA}} (International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions) Module:Language/data Category:Wikipedia multilingual support templates
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