Commons:Language templates

This page offers language templates for galleries, categories description, file description pages to write text with language label before it. For other localization features see Commons:Localization.

You can simply use the ISO 639 code of your language (the same as the subdomain of the Wikipedia in your language, so en for English, de for German etc.) as template name. The first and only parameter of the template must be the whole text that is in the specific language.

Sample description section

Wikitext:	{{de|Eine [[:de:Beschreibung|]] ist ein Text, der die Eigenschaften eines Objekts spezifiziert.}} {{en|A [[:en:description|]] is a text that specifies the properties of an object.}}
This renders as:	Deutsch: Eine Beschreibung ist ein Text, der die Eigenschaften eines Texts spezifiziert. English: A description is a text that specifies the properties of an object.

Using templates instead of manual captions (i.e. writing '''en:''') is preferred because it is possible to use CSS to "hide" languages a person doesn't understand. This can reduce the amount of unnecessary information and visual clutter.

If the description includes a "=", you need to use

{{en|1=description "1+1=2" }}

or

{{en|description "1+1{{=}}2" }}

instead of

{{en|description "1+1=2" }}

---

If you don't know the code of your language, you can look it up in the list:

Position	Code +/-	Local name	English Name
1	{{aa}}	Qafár af	Afar
2	{{ab}}	асша	Abkhazian
3	{{ace}}	Acèh	Achinese
4	{{af}}	Afrikaans	Afrikaans
5	{{ak}}	Akan	Akan
6	{{als}}	Alemannisch	Alemannisch
7	{{am}}		Amharic
8	{{an}}	aragonés	Aragonese
9	{{ang}}	AEnglisc	Old English
10	{{ar}}		Arabic
11	{{arc}}		Aramaic
11	{{ary}}		Moroccan Arabic
12	{{arz}}		Egyptian Arabic
13	{{as}}		Assamese
14	{{ast}}	asturianu	Asturian
15	{{atj}}	Atikamekw	Atikamekw
16	{{av}}	авар	Avaric
16	{{avk}}	Kotava	Kotava
16	{{awa}}		Awadhi
17	{{ay}}	Aymar aru	Aymara
18	{{az}}	azrbaycanca	Azerbaijani
19	{{azb}}		South Azerbaijani
20	{{ba}}	башортса	Bashkir
21	{{ban}}	Basa Bali	Balinese
22	{{bar}}	Boarisch	Bavarian
23	{{bcl}}	Bikol Central	Central Bikol
24	{{be}}	беларуская	Belarusian
24	{{be-tarask}}	беларуская (тарашкевца)	Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
25	{{bg}}	български	Bulgarian
26	{{bh}}		Bhojpuri
27	{{bi}}	Bislama	Bislama
28	{{bjn}}	Banjar	Banjar
29	{{bm}}	bamanankan	Bambara
30	{{bn}}		Bangla
31	{{bo}}		Tibetan
32	{{bpy}}		Bishnupriya
33	{{br}}	brezhoneg	Breton
34	{{bs}}	bosanski	Bosnian
35	{{bug}}		Buginese
36	{{bxr}}	буряад	Russia Buriat
37	{{ca}}	català	Catalan
38	{{cbk-zam}}	Chavacano de Zamboanga	Chavacano
39	{{cdo}}	Mìng-deng-ng	Min Dong Chinese
40	{{ce}}	нохчийн	Chechen
41	{{ceb}}	Cebuano	Cebuano
42	{{ch}}	Chamoru	Chamorro
43	{{cho}}	Choctaw	Choctaw
44	{{chr}}		Cherokee
45	{{chy}}	Tsetsêhest^ahese	Cheyenne
46	{{ckb}}		Central Kurdish
47	{{co}}	corsu	Corsican
48	{{cr}}	Nēhiyawēwin /	Cree
49	{{crh}}	qirimtatarca	Crimean Tatar
50	{{crh-cyrl}}	къырымтатарджа (Кирилл)	Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic script)
51	{{cs}}	cestina	Czech
52	{{csb}}	kasz"ebsczi	Kashubian
53	{{cu}}	словньскъ /	Church Slavic
54	{{cv}}	чвашла	Chuvash
55	{{cy}}	Cymraeg	Welsh
56	{{da}}	dansk	Danish
56	{{dag}}	dagbanli	Dagbani
57	{{de}}	Deutsch	German
58	{{diq}}	Zazaki	Zazaki
59	{{dsb}}	dolnoserbski	Lower Sorbian
60	{{dty}}		Doteli
61	{{dv}}		Divehi
62	{{dz}}		Dzongkha
63	{{ee}}	eegbe	Ewe
64	{{el}}	Ελληνικ	Greek
65	{{eml}}	emiliàn e rumagnòl	Emiliano-Romagnolo
66	{{en}}	English	English
67	{{en-gb}}	British English	British English
67	{{enm}}	enm	Middle English
68	{{eo}}	Esperanto	Esperanto
69	{{es}}	espa~nol	Spanish
70	{{et}}	eesti	Estonian
71	{{eu}}	euskara	Basque
72	{{ext}}	estreme~nu	Extremaduran
73	{{fa}}		Persian
74	{{ff}}	Fulfulde	Fulah
75	{{fi}}	suomi	Finnish
76	{{fil}}	filipino	Filipino
77	{{fj}}	Na Vosa Vakaviti	Fijian
78	{{fo}}	foroyskt	Faroese
79	{{fr}}	francais	French
79	{{fr-ca}}	fr-CA	Canadian French
80	{{frp}}	arpetan	Arpitan
81	{{frr}}	Nordfriisk	Northern Frisian
82	{{fur}}	furlan	Friulian
83	{{fy}}	Frysk	Western Frisian
84	{{ga}}	Gaeilge	Irish
85	{{gag}}	Gagauz	Gagauz
86	{{gan}}	贛語	Gan Chinese
87	{{gd}}	Gàidhlig	Scottish Gaelic
88	{{gl}}	galego	Galician
89	{{glk}}		Gilaki
90	{{gn}}	Ava~ne'	Guarani
91	{{gor}}	Bahasa Hulontalo	Gorontalo
92	{{got}}		Gothic
93	{{gsw}}	Alemannisch	Swiss German
93	{{gu}}		Gujarati
94	{{gv}}	Gaelg	Manx
95	{{ha}}	Hausa	Hausa
96	{{hak}}	客家語/Hak-k^a-ng^i	Hakka Chinese
97	{{haw}}	Hawai‘i	Hawaiian
98	{{he}}		Hebrew
99	{{hi}}		Hindi
100	{{hif}}	Fiji Hindi	Fiji Hindi
101	{{ho}}	Hiri Motu	Hiri Motu
102	{{hr}}	hrvatski	Croatian
103	{{hsb}}	hornjoserbsce	Upper Sorbian
104	{{ht}}	Kreyòl ayisyen	Haitian Creole
105	{{hu}}	magyar	Hungarian
106	{{hy}}		Armenian
107	{{hyw}}		Western Armenian
108	{{hz}}	Otsiherero	Herero
109	{{ia}}	interlingua	Interlingua
110	{{id}}	Bahasa Indonesia	Indonesian
111	{{ie}}	Interlingue	Interlingue
112	{{ig}}	Igbo	Igbo
113	{{ii}}		Sichuan Yi
114	{{ik}}	I~nupiak	Inupiaq
115	{{ilo}}	Ilokano	Iloko
116	{{inh}}	галгай	Ingush
117	{{io}}	Ido	Ido
118	{{is}}	íslenska	Icelandic
119	{{it}}	italiano	Italian
120	{{iu}}	/inuktitut	Inuktitut
121	{{ja}}	日本語	Japanese
122	{{jbo}}	la .lojban.	Lojban
123	{{jv}}	Jawa	Javanese
124	{{ka}}		Georgian
125	{{kaa}}	Qaraqalpaqsha	Kara-Kalpak
126	{{kab}}	Taqbaylit	Kabyle
127	{{kbd}}	адыгэбзэ	Kabardian
128	{{kg}}	Kongo	Kongo
129	{{ki}}	G~ik~uy~u	Kikuyu
130	{{kj}}	Kwanyama	Kuanyama
131	{{kk}}	азаша	Kazakh
132	{{kk-cyrl}}	азаша (кирил)	Kazakh (Cyrillic script)
133	{{kk-latn}}	qazaqsa (latin)	Kazakh (Latin script)
134	{{kl}}	kalaallisut	Kalaallisut
135	{{km}}		Khmer
136	{{kn}}		Kannada
137	{{ko}}		Korean
138	{{kr}}	kanuri	Kanuri
139	{{krc}}	къарачай-малкъар	Karachay-Balkar
140	{{ks}}	/	Kashmiri
141	{{ksh}}	Ripoarisch	Colognian
142	{{ku}}	kurd^i	Kurdish
143	{{kv}}	коми	Komi
144	{{kw}}	kernowek	Cornish
145	{{ky}}	кыргызча	Kyrgyz
146	{{la}}	Latina	Latin
147	{{lad}}	Ladino	Ladino
148	{{lb}}	L"etzebuergesch	Luxembourgish
149	{{lbe}}	лакку	Lak
150	{{lez}}	лезги	Lezghian
151	{{lfn}}	Lingua Franca Nova	Lingua Franca Nova
152	{{lg}}	Luganda	Ganda
153	{{li}}	Limburgs	Limburgish
154	{{lij}}	Ligure	Ligurian
155	{{lmo}}	lombard	Lombard
156	{{ln}}	lingála	Lingala
157	{{lo}}		Lao
158	{{lt}}	lietuviu	Lithuanian
159	{{ltg}}	latgalu	Latgalian
160	{{lv}}	latviesu	Latvian
161	{{lzh}}	文言	Literary Chinese
162	{{mai}}		Maithili
163	{{map-bms}}	Basa Banyumasan	Basa Banyumasan
164	{{mdf}}	мокшень	Moksha
165	{{mg}}	Malagasy	Malagasy
166	{{mh}}	Ebon	Marshallese
167	{{mhr}}	олык марий	Eastern Mari
168	{{mi}}	Māori	Maori
169	{{min}}	Minangkabau	Minangkabau
170	{{mk}}	македонски	Macedonian
171	{{ml}}		Malayalam
172	{{mn}}	монгол	Mongolian
173	{{mni}}		Manipuri
174	{{mo}}	молдовеняскэ	Moldovan
175	{{mr}}		Marathi
176	{{mrj}}	кырык мары	Western Mari
177	{{ms}}	Bahasa Melayu	Malay
178	{{mt}}	Malti	Maltese
179	{{mus}}	Mvskoke	Muscogee
180	{{mwl}}	Mirandés	Mirandese
181	{{my}}		Burmese
182	{{myv}}	эрзянь	Erzya
183	{{mzn}}		Mazanderani
184	{{na}}	Dorerin Naoero	Nauru
185	{{nah}}	Nāhuatl	Nāhuatl
186	{{nan}}	B^an-l^am-gú	Min Nan Chinese
187	{{nap}}	Napulitano	Neapolitan
188	{{nb}}	norsk bokmal	Norwegian Bokmal
189	{{nds}}	Plattdüütsch	Low German
190	{{nds-nl}}	Nedersaksies	Low Saxon
191	{{ne}}		Nepali
192	{{new}}		Newari
193	{{ng}}	Oshiwambo	Ndonga
194	{{nl}}	Nederlands	Dutch
195	{{nn}}	norsk nynorsk	Norwegian Nynorsk
197	{{nov}}	Novial	Novial
198	{{nrm}}	Nouormand	Norman
199	{{nso}}	Sesotho sa Leboa	Northern Sotho
200	{{nv}}	Diné bizaad	Navajo
201	{{ny}}	Chi-Chewa	Nyanja
202	{{oc}}	occitan	Occitan
203	{{om}}	Oromoo	Oromo
204	{{omp}}	omp	omp
205	{{or}}		Odia
206	{{os}}	ирон	Ossetic
207	{{pa}}		Punjabi
208	{{pag}}	Pangasinan	Pangasinan
209	{{pam}}	Kapampangan	Pampanga
210	{{pap}}	Papiamentu	Papiamento
211	{{pcd}}	Picard	Papiamento
212	{{pdc}}	Deitsch	Pennsylvania German
213	{{pdt}}	Plautdietsch	Plautdietsch
214	{{pfl}}	P"alzisch	Palatine German
215	{{pi}}		Pali
216	{{pih}}	Norfuk / Pitkern	Norfuk / Pitkern
217	{{pl}}	polski	Polish
218	{{pms}}	Piemontèis	Piedmontese
219	{{pnb}}		Western Punjabi
220	{{pnt}}	Ποντιακ	Pontic
221	{{ps}}		Pashto
222	{{pt}}	português	Portuguese
223	{{qu}}	Runa Simi	Quechua
224	{{rm}}	rumantsch	Romansh
225	{{rmy}}	romani chib	Vlax Romani
226	{{rn}}	ikirundi	Rundi
227	{{ro}}	rom^ana	Romanian
228	{{roa-tara}}	tarandíne	Tarantino
229	{{ru}}	русский	Russian
230	{{rue}}	русиньскый	Rusyn
231	{{rup}}	arm~aneashti	Aromanian
232	{{rw}}	Ikinyarwanda	Kinyarwanda
233	{{sa}}		Sanskrit
234	{{sah}}	саха тыла	Sakha
235	{{sat}}		Santali
236	{{sc}}	sardu	Sardinian
237	{{scn}}	sicilianu	Sicilian
238	{{sco}}	Scots	Scots
239	{{sd}}		Sindhi
240	{{se}}	davvisámegiella	Northern Sami
241	{{sg}}	S"ang"o	Sango
242	{{sgs}}	zemaiteska	Samogitian
243	{{sh}}	srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски	Serbo-Croatian
244	{{shn}}		Shan
245	{{si}}		Sinhala
246	{{simple}}	Simple English	Simple English
247	{{sk}}	slovencina	Slovak
248	{{sl}}	slovenscina	Slovenian
249	{{sm}}	Gagana Samoa	Samoan
250	{{sn}}	chiShona	Shona
251	{{so}}	Soomaaliga	Somali
252	{{sq}}	shqip	Albanian
253	{{sr}}	српски / srpski	Serbian
254	{{srn}}	Sranantongo	Sranan Tongo
255	{{ss}}	SiSwati	Swati
256	{{st}}	Sesotho	Southern Sotho
257	{{stq}}	Seeltersk	Saterland Frisian
258	{{su}}	Sunda	Sundanese
259	{{sv}}	svenska	Swedish
260	{{sw}}	Kiswahili	Swahili
261	{{szl}}	'slunski	Silesian
262	{{ta}}		Tamil
263	{{tcy}}		Tulu
264	{{te}}		Telugu
265	{{tet}}	tetun	Tetum
266	{{tg}}	тоик	Tajik
267	{{tgl}}	Tagalog	Tagalog
268	{{tglg}}	tl-Tglg	tglg
269	{{th}}		Thai
270	{{ti}}		Tigrinya
271	{{tk}}	Türkmence	Turkmen
272	{{tn}}	Setswana	Tswana
273	{{to}}	lea faka-Tonga	Tongan
274	{{tokipona}}	toki pona	tokipona
275	{{tpi}}	Tok Pisin	Tok Pisin
276	{{tr}}	Türkce	Turkish
277	{{ts}}	Xitsonga	Tsonga
278	{{tt}}	татарча/tatarca	Tatar
279	{{tum}}	chiTumbuka	Tumbuka
280	{{tw}}	Twi	Twi
281	{{ty}}	reo tahiti	Tahitian
282	{{tyv}}	тыва дыл	Tuvinian
283	{{udm}}	удмурт	Udmurt
284	{{ug}}	/ Uyghurche	Uyghur
285	{{uk}}	укранська	Ukrainian
286	{{ur}}		Urdu
287	{{uz}}	o‘zbekcha/збекча	Uzbek
288	{{ve}}	Tshivenda	Venda
289	{{vec}}	vèneto	Venetian
290	{{vep}}	veps"an kel’	Veps
291	{{vi}}	Ting Vit	Vietnamese
292	{{vls}}	West-Vlams	West Flemish
293	{{vo}}	Volapük	Volapük
294	{{vro}}	v~oro	V~oro
295	{{wa}}	walon	Walloon
296	{{war}}	Winaray	Waray
297	{{wo}}	Wolof	Wolof
298	{{wuu}}	吴语	Wu Chinese
299	{{xal}}	хальмг	Kalmyk
300	{{xh}}	isiXhosa	Xhosa
301	{{xmf}}		Mingrelian
302	{{yi}}		Yiddish
303	{{yo}}	Yorùbá	Yoruba
304	{{yue}}	粵語	Cantonese
305	{{za}}	Vahcuengh	Zhuang
306	{{zea}}	Zeêuws	Zeelandic
307	{{zh}}	中文	Chinese
308	{{zh-cn}}	中文（中国大陆）	Chinese (China)
309	{{zh-hans}}	中文（简体）	Simplified Chinese
310	{{zh-hant}}	中文（繁體）	Traditional Chinese
311	{{zh-hk}}	中文（香港）	Chinese (Hong Kong)
312	{{zh-sg}}	中文（新加坡）	Chinese (Singapore)
313	{{zu}}	isiZulu	Zulu

English: See also en:Language code.

Русский: См. также ru:Коды языков.

中文（简体）：参见zh:语言代码。

中文（繁體）：參見zh:語言代碼。