Template:Language

babel examples below
fr-N This person is a native French speaker.
en-5 This person is a professional English speaker.
de-4 This person is a near native German speaker.
es-3 This person is an advanced Spanish speaker.
pt-2 This person is an intermediate Portuguese speaker.
it-1 This person is a basic Italian speaker.
zh-0 This person is a non Chinese speaker.

Some examples are shown on the right

Note: red links indicate we have no person here on this WikiIndex wiki site who speaks that language at that level.

This user language template renders the appropriate specific language 'babel' user-box (examples shown right); as used on personal individual user pages of those people who identify their spoken language(s), along with any 'parent' category and its associated sub-categories of category: Wiki people by language.

This template has two (2) compulsory input requirements; immediately after {{Language| . . ..

• 1st — ISO 639 code – the two- or three- letter ISO 639 language code;
• 2nd — level – 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or N (for 'native').

Usage

To use a babel box on your own user page, highlight the following code, copy (Ctrl-c on your Windows keyboard, or ⌘-c on a Macintosh keyboard), paste (Ctrl-v or ⌘-v) it in the edit box of your user page, then amend the two bold-italics to the required information, before saving (Ctrl-s or ⌘-s) your edit.

{{Language|ISO 639 code|level=?}}
Where . . .

• ISO 639 code — the two- or three- letter language code, and;
• level=? — a letter or number indicating how well, or proficiency and competency the language is spoken (and / or understood):
  • N — native
  • 5 — professional
  • 4 — near native
  • 3 — advanced
  • 2 — intermediate
  • 1 — basic
  • 0 — not able to speak

Find code

The English Wikipedia has articles on the ISO 639 language codes. To find the specific code for a language, see the list of ISO 639-1 codes; and in the table of languages, look at the column saying 639-1. If the language you seek is not there, see list of ISO 639-2 codes, and look at the Alpha-3 column. If it still is not there, look at the ISO 639-3 codes list, and click a letter. Finally, if it is not there yet, write the name of the required language in English. You may also ask someone, or look for fellow users on any of the language versions of Wikipedia. Finally, template: Wikipedia has many examples of ISO 639 language codes.

See also

• Template: List of language names ordered by code — at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• Template: ISO 639-2 — creates an interwiki link to the ISO 639-2 Identifier Documentation of the two-letter (alpha-2) language code on the ISO 639-2 Registration Authority website
• Template: ISO 639-3 — creates an interwiki link to the ISO 639-3 Identifier Documentation of the three-letter (alpha-3) language code on the ISO 639-3 Registration Authority website
• Template: IETF-language-tag — a template to display the standardised language code for a specific language from the Internet Engineering Task Force

Categorisation

All main language categories for wiki people can be found at category: Wiki people by language. All sub-categories can be found at Category:Language speakers (#), where Language is the anglicised name of a user language, and # is a number between 0-to-5 or an N which defines their proficiency level.

Sub-pages and related or linked templates

• Language
• Language/0
• Language/1
• Language/2
• Language/3
• Language/4
• Language/5
• Language/N
• LanguageColours1
• LanguageColours1/test
• LanguageColours2
• LanguageColours3
• Language Category
• Language names
• Language versions