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 {{Wd|Beschreibung}} ist ein Text, der die Eigenschaften eines Objekts spezifiziert.}}
{{en|A {{W|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}} аԥсшәа Abkhazian
3 {{ace}} Acèh Achinese
4 {{af}} Afrikaans Afrikaans
5 {{ak}} Akan Akan
6 {{als}} Alemannisch Alemannic
7 {{am}} አማርኛ Amharic
8 {{ami}} Pangcah Amis
9 {{an}} aragonés Aragonese
10 {{ang}} Ænglisc Old English
11 {{ar}} العربية Arabic
12 {{arc}} ܐܪܡܝܐ Aramaic
13 {{arq}} جازايرية Algerian Arabic
14 {{ary}} الدارجة Moroccan Arabic
15 {{arz}} مصرى Egyptian Arabic
16 {{as}} অসমীয়া Assamese
17 {{ast}} asturianu Asturian
18 {{atj}} Atikamekw Atikamekw
19 {{av}} авар Avaric
20 {{avk}} Kotava Kotava
21 {{awa}} अवधी Awadhi
22 {{ay}} Aymar aru Aymara
23 {{az}} azərbaycanca Azerbaijani
24 {{azb}} تۆرکجه South Azerbaijani
25 {{ba}} башҡортса Bashkir
26 {{ban}} Basa Bali Balinese
27 {{bar}} Boarisch Bavarian
28 {{bbc}} Batak Toba Batak Toba
29 {{bcl}} Bikol Central Central Bikol
30 {{be}} беларуская Belarusian
31 {{be-tarask}} беларуская (тарашкевіца) Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)
32 {{bg}} български Bulgarian
33 {{bh}} भोजपुरी Bhojpuri
34 {{bi}} Bislama Bislama
35 {{bjn}} Banjar Banjar
36 {{blk}} ပအိုဝ်ႏဘာႏသာႏ Pa'O
37 {{bm}} bamanankan Bambara
38 {{bn}} বাংলা Bangla
39 {{bo}} བོད་ཡིག Tibetan
40 {{bpy}} বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী Bishnupriya
41 {{br}} brezhoneg Breton
42 {{bs}} bosanski Bosnian
43 {{bug}} Basa Ugi Buginese
44 {{bxr}} буряад Russia Buriat
45 {{ca}} català Catalan
46 {{cbk-zam}} Chavacano de Zamboanga Chavacano
47 {{cdo}} 閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ Mindong
48 {{ce}} нохчийн Chechen
49 {{ceb}} Cebuano Cebuano
50 {{ch}} Chamoru Chamorro
51 {{cho}} Chahta anumpa Choctaw
52 {{chr}} ᏣᎳᎩ Cherokee
53 {{chy}} Tsetsêhestâhese Cheyenne
54 {{ckb}} کوردی Central Kurdish
55 {{cnr}} cnr Montenegrin
56 {{co}} corsu Corsican
57 {{cr}} Nēhiyawēwin / ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ Cree
58 {{crh}} qırımtatarca Crimean Tatar
59 {{crh-cyrl}} къырымтатарджа (Кирилл) Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic script)
60 {{cs}} čeština Czech
61 {{csb}} kaszëbsczi Kashubian
62 {{cu}} словѣньскъ / ⰔⰎⰑⰂⰡⰐⰠⰔⰍⰟ Church Slavic
63 {{cv}} чӑвашла Chuvash
64 {{cy}} Cymraeg Welsh
65 {{da}} dansk Danish
66 {{dag}} dagbanli Dagbani
67 {{de}} Deutsch German
68 {{diq}} Zazaki Zazaki
69 {{dsb}} dolnoserbski Lower Sorbian
70 {{dty}} डोटेली Doteli
71 {{dv}} ދިވެހިބަސް Divehi
72 {{dz}} ཇོང་ཁ Dzongkha
73 {{ee}} eʋegbe Ewe
74 {{el}} Ελληνικά Greek
75 {{eml}} emiliàn e rumagnòl Emiliano-Romagnolo
76 {{en}} English English
77 {{en-ca}} Canadian English Canadian English
78 {{en-gb}} British English British English
79 {{en-in}} en-IN Indian English
80 {{en-us}} American English American English
81 {{enm}} enm Middle English
82 {{eo}} Esperanto Esperanto
83 {{es}} español Spanish
84 {{et}} eesti Estonian
85 {{eu}} euskara Basque
86 {{ext}} estremeñu Extremaduran
87 {{fa}} فارسی Persian
88 {{ff}} Fulfulde Fula
89 {{fi}} suomi Finnish
90 {{fil}} fil Filipino
91 {{fj}} Na Vosa Vakaviti Fijian
92 {{fo}} føroyskt Faroese
93 {{fr}} français French
94 {{fr-ca}} fr-CA Canadian French
95 {{frp}} arpetan Arpitan
96 {{frr}} Nordfriisk Northern Frisian
97 {{fur}} furlan Friulian
98 {{fy}} Frysk Western Frisian
84 {{ga}} Gaeilge Irish
99 {{gag}} Gagauz Gagauz
100 {{gan}} 贛語 Gan
101 {{gcr}} kriyòl gwiyannen Guianan Creole
102 {{gd}} Gàidhlig Scottish Gaelic
103 {{gl}} galego Galician
104 {{glk}} گیلکی Gilaki
105 {{gn}} Avañe'ẽ Guarani
106 {{goh}} goh Old High German
107 {{gom}} गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni Goan Konkani
108 {{gor}} Bahasa Hulontalo Gorontalo
109 {{got}} 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺 Gothic
110 {{grc}} Ἀρχαία ἑλληνικὴ Ancient Greek
111 {{gsw}} Alemannisch Alemannic
112 {{gu}} ગુજરાતી Gujarati
113 {{guc}} wayuunaiki Wayuu
114 {{gv}} Gaelg Manx
115 {{ha}} Hausa Hausa
116 {{hak}} 客家語/Hak-kâ-ngî Hakka Chinese
117 {{haw}} Hawaiʻi Hawaiian
118 {{he}} עברית Hebrew
119 {{hi}} हिन्दी Hindi
120 {{hif}} Fiji Hindi Fiji Hindi
121 {{ho}} Hiri Motu Hiri Motu
122 {{hr}} hrvatski Croatian
123 {{hsb}} hornjoserbsce Upper Sorbian
124 {{ht}} Kreyòl ayisyen Haitian Creole
125 {{hu}} magyar Hungarian
126 {{hy}} հայերեն Armenian
127 {{hyw}} Արեւմտահայերէն Western Armenian
128 {{hz}} Otsiherero Herero
129 {{ia}} interlingua Interlingua
130 {{id}} Bahasa Indonesia Indonesian
131 {{ie}} Interlingue Interlingue
132 {{ig}} Igbo Igbo
133 {{ii}} ꆇꉙ Sichuan Yi
134 {{ik}} Iñupiatun Inupiaq
135 {{ilo}} Ilokano Iloko
136 {{inh}} гӀалгӀай Ingush
137 {{io}} Ido Ido
138 {{is}} íslenska Icelandic
139 {{it}} italiano Italian
140 {{iu}} ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ / inuktitut Inuktitut
141 {{ja}} 日本語 Japanese
142 {{jbo}} la .lojban. Lojban
143 {{jv}} Jawa Javanese
144 {{ka}} ქართული Georgian
145 {{kaa}} Qaraqalpaqsha Kara-Kalpak
146 {{kab}} Taqbaylit Kabyle
147 {{kbd}} адыгэбзэ Kabardian
148 {{kcg}} Tyap Tyap
149 {{kg}} Kongo Kongo
150 {{ki}} Gĩkũyũ Kikuyu
130 {{kj}} Kwanyama Kuanyama
131 {{kk}} қазақша Kazakh
132 {{kk-cyrl}} қазақша (кирил) Kazakh (Cyrillic script)
133 {{kk-latn}} qazaqşa (latın) Kazakh (Latin script)
134 {{kl}} kalaallisut Kalaallisut
135 {{km}} ភាសាខ្មែរ Khmer
136 {{kn}} ಕನ್ನಡ Kannada
137 {{ko}} 한국어 Korean
137 {{ko-kp}} 조선말 Korean (North Korea)
138 {{kr}} kanuri Kanuri
139 {{krc}} къарачай-малкъар Karachay-Balkar
140 {{ks}} कॉशुर / کٲشُر Kashmiri
141 {{ksh}} Ripoarisch Colognian
142 {{ku}} kurdî Kurdish
143 {{kv}} коми Komi
144 {{kw}} kernowek Cornish
145 {{ky}} кыргызча Kyrgyz
146 {{la}} Latina Latin
147 {{lad}} Ladino Ladino
148 {{lb}} Lëtzebuergesch 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 {{lld}} Ladin Ladin
155 {{lmo}} lombard Lombard
156 {{ln}} lingála Lingala
157 {{lo}} ລາວ Lao
158 {{lt}} lietuvių Lithuanian
159 {{ltg}} latgaļu Latgalian
160 {{lv}} latviešu Latvian
161 {{lzh}} 文言 Literary Chinese
162 {{mad}} Madhurâ Madurese
162 {{mai}} मैथिली 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 Māori
169 {{min}} Minangkabau Minangkabau
170 {{mk}} македонски Macedonian
171 {{ml}} മലയാളം Malayalam
172 {{mn}} монгол Mongolian
173 {{mnc}} ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ ᡤᡳᠰᡠᠨ Manchu
173 {{mni}} ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ Manipuri
173 {{mnw}} ဘာသာမန် Mon
174 {{mo}} молдовеняскэ Moldovan
175 {{mr}} मराठी 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}} မြန်မာဘာသာ Burmese
182 {{myv}} эрзянь Erzya
183 {{mzn}} مازِرونی Mazanderani
184 {{na}} Dorerin Naoero Nauru
185 {{nah}} Nāhuatl Nāhuatl
186 {{nan}} Bân-lâm-gú Minnan
187 {{nap}} Napulitano Neapolitan
188 {{nb}} norsk bokmål Norwegian Bokmål
189 {{nds}} Plattdüütsch Low German
190 {{nds-nl}} Nedersaksies Low Saxon
191 {{ne}} नेपाली Nepali
192 {{new}} नेपाल भाषा Newari
193 {{ng}} Oshiwambo Ndonga
193 {{nia}} Li Niha Nias
194 {{nl}} Nederlands Dutch
195 {{nn}} norsk nynorsk Norwegian Nynorsk
197 {{nov}} Novial Novial
198 {{nqo}} ߒߞߏ N’Ko
198 {{nrf}} Nouormand Norman
198 {{nrm}} Nouormand Norman
199 {{nrn}} nrn nrn
200 {{nso}} Sesotho sa Leboa Northern Sotho
201 {{nv}} Diné bizaad Navajo
202 {{ny}} Chi-Chewa Nyanja
202 {{nys}} Nyunga Nyungar
203 {{oc}} occitan Occitan
204 {{olo}} livvinkarjala Livvi-Karelian
204 {{om}} Oromoo Oromo
205 {{omp}} omp omp
206 {{or}} ଓଡ଼ିଆ Odia
207 {{os}} ирон Ossetic
207 {{ota}} لسان عثمانى Ottoman Turkish
208 {{pa}} ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Punjabi
209 {{pag}} Pangasinan Pangasinan
210 {{pam}} Kapampangan Pampanga
211 {{pap}} Papiamentu Papiamento
212 {{pcd}} Picard Picard
213 {{pdc}} Deitsch Pennsylvania German
214 {{pdt}} Plautdietsch Plautdietsch
215 {{pfl}} Pälzisch Palatine German
216 {{pi}} पालि Pali
217 {{pih}} Norfuk / Pitkern Norfuk / Pitkern
218 {{pl}} polski Polish
219 {{pms}} Piemontèis Piedmontese
220 {{pnb}} پنجابی Western Punjabi
221 {{pnt}} Ποντιακά Pontic
222 {{ps}} پښتو Pashto
223 {{pt}} português Portuguese
224 {{qu}} Runa Simi Quechua
225 {{rm}} rumantsch Romansh
226 {{rmy}} romani čhib Vlax Romani
227 {{rn}} ikirundi Rundi
228 {{ro}} română Romanian
229 {{roa-tara}} tarandíne Tarantino
230 {{ru}} русский Russian
231 {{rue}} русиньскый Rusyn
232 {{rup}} armãneashti Aromanian
233 {{rw}} Ikinyarwanda Kinyarwanda
231 {{ryu}} 沖縄口 Okinawan
234 {{sa}} संस्कृतम् Sanskrit
235 {{sah}} саха тыла Yakut
236 {{sat}} ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ Santali
237 {{sc}} sardu Sardinian
238 {{scn}} sicilianu Sicilian
239 {{sco}} Scots Scots
240 {{sd}} سنڌي Sindhi
240 {{sdc}} Sassaresu Sassarese Sardinian
241 {{se}} davvisámegiella Northern Sami
242 {{sg}} Sängö Sango
243 {{sgs}} žemaitėška Samogitian
244 {{sh}} srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Serbo-Croatian
245 {{shi}} Taclḥit Tachelhit
245 {{shn}} ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး Shan
245 {{shy}} tacawit Shawiya
246 {{si}} සිංහල Sinhala
247 {{simple}} Simple English Simple English
246 {{sjd}} кӣллт са̄мь кӣлл Kildin Sami
246 {{sjt}} sjt Ter Sami
248 {{sk}} slovenčina Slovak
249 {{sl}} slovenščina Slovenian
250 {{sm}} Gagana Samoa Samoan
250 {{sma}} åarjelsaemien Southern Sami
250 {{sms}} nuõrttsääʹmǩiõll Skolt Sami
251 {{sn}} chiShona Shona
252 {{so}} Soomaaliga Somali
253 {{sq}} shqip Albanian
254 {{sr}} српски / srpski Serbian
255 {{srn}} Sranantongo Sranan Tongo
256 {{ss}} SiSwati Swati
257 {{st}} Sesotho Southern Sotho
258 {{stq}} Seeltersk Saterland Frisian
259 {{su}} Sunda Sundanese
260 {{sv}} svenska Swedish
261 {{sw}} Kiswahili Swahili
262 {{syc}} syc Classical Syriac
262 {{syl}} ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ Sylheti
262 {{szl}} ślůnski Silesian
263 {{ta}} தமிழ் Tamil
264 {{tcy}} ತುಳು Tulu
265 {{te}} తెలుగు Telugu
266 {{tet}} tetun Tetum
267 {{tg}} тоҷикӣ Tajik
267 {{tg-latn}} tojikī Tajik (Latin script)
268 {{tgl}} Tagalog Tagalog
269 {{tglg}} tl-Tglg tglg
270 {{th}} ไทย Thai
271 {{ti}} ትግርኛ Tigrinya
272 {{tk}} Türkmençe Turkmen
273 {{tn}} Setswana Tswana
274 {{to}} lea faka-Tonga Tongan
275 {{tok}} toki pona Toki Pona
276 {{tpi}} Tok Pisin Tok Pisin
277 {{tr}} Türkçe Turkish
278 {{ts}} Xitsonga Tsonga
279 {{tt}} татарча / tatarça Tatar
280 {{tum}} chiTumbuka Tumbuka
281 {{tw}} Twi Twi
282 {{ty}} reo tahiti Tahitian
283 {{tyv}} тыва дыл Tuvinian
283 {{tzl}} tzl Talossan
284 {{udm}} удмурт Udmurt
285 {{ug}} ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche Uyghur
285 {{ug-arab}} ئۇيغۇرچە Uyghur (Arabic script)
285 {{ug-latn}} Uyghurche Uyghur (Latin script)
286 {{uk}} українська Ukrainian
287 {{ur}} اردو Urdu
288 {{uz}} oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча Uzbek
289 {{ve}} Tshivenda Venda
290 {{vec}} vèneto Venetian
291 {{vep}} vepsän kel’ Veps
292 {{vi}} Tiếng Việt Vietnamese
293 {{vls}} West-Vlams West Flemish
294 {{vo}} Volapük Volapük
295 {{vro}} võro Võro
296 {{wa}} walon Walloon
297 {{war}} Winaray Waray
298 {{wls}} Fakaʻuvea Wallisian
299 {{wo}} Wolof Wolof
300 {{wuu}} 吴语 Wu
301 {{xal}} хальмг Kalmyk
302 {{xh}} isiXhosa Xhosa
303 {{xmf}} მარგალური Mingrelian
304 {{yi}} ייִדיש Yiddish
305 {{yo}} Yorùbá Yoruba
306 {{yue}} 粵語 Cantonese
307 {{za}} Vahcuengh Zhuang
308 {{zea}} Zeêuws Zeelandic
309 {{zgh}} ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ ⵜⴰⵏⴰⵡⴰⵢⵜ Standard Moroccan Tamazight
309 {{zh}} 中文 Chinese
310 {{zh-cn}} 中文(中国大陆) Chinese (China)
311 {{zh-hans}} 中文(简体) Simplified Chinese
312 {{zh-hant}} 中文(繁體) Traditional Chinese
313 {{zh-hk}} 中文(香港) Chinese (Hong Kong)
313 {{zh-mo}} 中文(澳門) Chinese (Macau)
313 {{zh-my}} 中文(马来西亚) Chinese (Malaysia)
314 {{zh-sg}} 中文(新加坡) Chinese (Singapore)
314 {{zh-tw}} 中文(臺灣) Chinese (Taiwan)
315 {{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