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User language templates aid multilingual communication by making it easier to contact someone who speaks a certain language. The idea originated on the Wikimedia Commons and has also been implemented on Meta-Wiki and some of the other Wikipedias, to varying extents. To participate, you can add the Babel template to your user page by following these instructions:

TRANSLATION DEPARTMENT

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  • Start off with {{Babel-
  • Then add the number of language templates you want to display, followed by |
    • e.g. {{Babel-3| for three languages
  • Next add one of the following codes for each language you speak or understand, separated by |, where xx is the Wikipedia code for the language. The general usage of each code level is as follows:
  • xx-0 if you might be expected to understand the language (e.g. if you often contribute to articles about it), but you actually don't. You should not use it for every language you do not know.
  • xx-1 if you can understand that language well enough to use an article as a source for writings in your own language, but you are unable to significantly contribute to an article in that language.
  • xx-2 if you can contribute to articles in that language to some extent, but you are not confident in writing in it and therefore you are likely to make many mistakes.
  • xx-3 if you are confident in writing that language, but often minor errors occur.
  • xx-4 if you can write articles in that language at the level of an averagely educated native speaker.
  • proposed — not yet implemented xx-5 if you have a 'professional' proficiency in that language (e.g. if are a teacher of it, or a professional writer in it), i.e. if you can confidently tell whether a sentence is correct, find the most appropriate word for a given concept, understand literary and technical words and phrases, etc.
  • xx if you are a native speaker, i.e. if you are used to use that language in all everyday situations, and you have a perfect grasp of it, including colloquialisms. (This means that if you moved from an xx-speaking country to a yy-speaking country at the age of 12, and have never spoke xx language again, you should classify yourself as a native speaker of yy and not of xx, even if you used to speak nothing else as a child. In the case that you moved as an adult, you should decide by yourself, according to your 'feel', and in rare cases you might even have several native languages.) Used alone, it means that your proficiency in written language is xx-4, if it isn't you should use both xx and xx-5 (when it gets implemented) or xx-3 or whatever. (If it is much lower than xx-4, however, it would be a good idea to explain the reason in your user page.)
  • Then finish by adding closing braces: }}
Wikipedia:Babel
en This user is a native speaker of English.
es Este usuario es hablante nativo de español.
de Dieser Benutzer spricht Deutsch als Muttersprache.
fr Cet utilisateur a pour langue maternelle le français.
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So, for example, {{Babel-2|en|de-1}} would indicate a native speaker of English with basic knowledge of German. {{Babel-4|sv|en-3|fr-2|es-1}} would indicate a native speaker of Swedish with an advanced knowledge of English, an intermediate knowledge of French, and a basic knowledge of Spanish.

You can also add stand-alone language templates by following the {{User xx-1}} format.

These templates add you to the category associated with your level of understanding, and to the overall category for that language.

To find someone who speaks a particular language, see user languages, and follow the links. For the most part, the two and three letter codes are taken from ISO 639, but see this list for a comprehensive guide.

You can help expand this system by creating templates for your language. Categories have already been created for most languages which have editions of Wikipedia containing over a hundred articles; they just need labelling up! It's recommended to copy the English or French versions when expanding the scheme, as most of the languages listed here are incomplete.

Note that all sign languages currently use the same template, with language code "sgn". The particular sign language can be specified within the template itself. The use of this parameter requires the user to perform an extra step when using the {{Babel-X}} templates, described here.

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Natural languages

aa - Afar (Afar)

Category: user aa

ab - Аҧсуа (Abkhaz)

Category: user ab

af - Afrikaans (Afrikaans)

Category: user af

ak - Akan (Akan)

Category: user ak

als - Alemannisch (Alemannic)

Category: user als

am - አማርኛ (Amharic)

Category: user am

an - Aragonés (Aragonese)

Category: user an

ang - Englisc (Old English)

Category: user ang

ar - العربية (Arabic)

Category: user ar

arc - ܕܥܒܪܸܝܛ (Aramaic)

Category: user arc

as - অসমীয়া (Assamese)

Category: user as

ASL - ASL (American Sign Language)

Category: user ASL

ast - Asturianu (Asturian)

Category: user ast

av - Авар (Avar)

Category: user av

ay - Aymar (Aymara)

Category: user ay

az - Azəri dili (Azerbaijani)

Category: user az

ba - Башқорт (Bashkir)

Category: user ba

be - Беларуская (Belarusian)

Category: user be

bg - Български (Bulgarian)

Category: user bg

bh - भोजपुरी (Bhojpuri)

Category: user bh

bi - Bislama (Bislama)

Category: user bi

bm - Bamanankan (Bambara)

Category: user bm

bn - বাংলা / Bānglā (Bengali)

Category: user bn

bo - བོད་ཡིག (Tibetan)

Category: user bo

br - Brezhoneg (Breton)

Category: user br

bs - Bosanski (Bosnian)

Category: user bs

ca - Català (Catalan)

Category: user ca

ce - Нохчийн (Chechen)

Category: user ce

ceb - Sugbuanon (Cebuano)

Category: user ceb

ch - Chamoru (Chamorro)

Category: user ch

cho - Choctaw (Choctaw)

Category: user cho

chr - ᏣᎳᎩ (Cherokee)

Category: user chr

chy - Tsetsêhestâhese (Cheyenne)

Category: user chy

co - Corsu (Corsican)

Category: user co

cr - Nehiyaw (Cree)

Category: user cr

cs - Český (Czech)

Category: user cs

csb - Kaszëbsczi (Kashubian)

Category: user csb

cv - Чӑваш (Chuvash)

Category: user cv

cy - Cymraeg (Welsh)

Category: user cy

da - Dansk (Danish)

Category: user da

de - Deutsch (German)

Category: user de

dv - Dhivehi (Dhivehi)

Category: user dv

dz - རྫོང་ཁ (Dzongkha)

Category: user dz

ee - Eve (Ewe)

Category: user ee

el - Ελληνικά (Greek)

Category: user el

en - English (English)

Category: user en

eo - Esperanto (Esperanto)

Category: user eo

er - Europanto (Europanto)

Category: user er

es - Español (Spanish)

Category: user es

et - Eesti (Estonian)

Category: user et

eu - Euskara (Basque)

Category: user eu

fa - فارسی (Persian)

Category: user fa

ff - Fulfulde (Fula)

Category: user ff

fi - Suomi (Finnish)

Category: user fi

fj - Vosa vaka-Viti (Fijian)

Category: user fj

fo - Føroyskt (Faroese)

Category: user fo

fr - Français (French)

Category: user fr

fur - Furlan (Friulian)

Category: user fur

fy - Frysk (Frisian)

Category: user fy

ga - Gaeilge (Irish)

Category: user ga

gd - Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic)

Category: user gd

gil - Kiribati (Gilbertese)

Category: user gil

gl - Galego (Galician)

Category: user gl

gn - Avañe'ẽ (Guaraní)

Category: user gn

got - 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌰 𐍂𐌰𐌶𐌳𐌰 (Gothic)

Category: user got

grc - Ελληνική (Classical Greek)

Category: user grc

gu - ગુજરાતી (Gujarati)

Category: user gu

gv - Gaelg (Manx)

Category: user gv

ha - Hausa (Hausa)

Category: user ha

haw - Hawai‘i (Hawaiian)

Category: user haw

he - עברית (Hebrew)

Category: user he

hess - Hessisch (Hessian)

Category: user hess

hi - हिन्दी (Hindi)

Category: user hi

ho - Hiri Motu (Hiri Motu)

Category: user ho

hr - Hrvatski (Croatian)

Category: user hr

ht - Krèyol ayisyen (Haitian)

Category: user ht

hu - Magyar (Hungarian)

Category: user hu

hy - Հայերեն (Armenian)

Category: user hy

ia - Interlingua (Interlingua)

Category: user ia

id - Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)

Category: user id

ie - Interlingue (Occidental)

Category: user ie

ig - Igbo (Igbo)

Category: user ig

ii - ꆇꉙ (Yi)

Category: user ii

ik - Iñupiak (Inupiak)

Category: user ik

ilo - Ilokano (Ilokano)

Category: user ilo

io - Ido (Ido)

Category: user io

is - Íslenska (Icelandic)

Category: user is

it - Italiano (Italian)

Category: user it

iu - ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (Inuktitut)

Category: user iu

ja - 日本語 (Japanese)

Category: user ja

jbo - Lojban (Lojban)

Category: user jbo

jv - Basa Jawa/Basa Jawi (Javanese)

Category: user jv

ka - ქართული / Kartuli (Georgian)

Category: user ka

ke - Κοινή Ελληνική (Koine Greek)

Category: user ke

kg - Kikong (Kongo)

Category: user kg

ki - Gĩkũyũ (Kikuyu)

Category: user ki

kj - Kuanyama (Kuanyama)

Category: user kj

kk - Қазақша (Kazakh)

Category: user kk

kl - Kalaallisut (Kalaallisut)

Category: user kl

km - ភាសាខ្មែរ (Khmer)

Category: user km

kn - ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)

Category: user kn

ko - 한국어 (Korean)

Category: user ko

kr - Kanuri (Kanuri)

Category: user kr

ks - कश्मीरी / كشميري (Kashmiri)

Category: user ks

ku - Kurdî / كوردی (Kurdish)

Category: user ku

kv - Коми (Komi)

Category: user kv

kw - Kernewek (Cornish)

Category: user kw

ky - Кыргызча (Kyrgyz)

Category: user ky

la - Latina (Latin)

Category: user la

lb - Lëtzebuergesch (Luxembourgish)

Category: user lb

lg - Luganda (Luganda)

Category: user lg

li - Lèmburgs (Limburgish)

Category: user li

lk - Lakhota (Lakota)

Category: user lk

ln - Lingála (Lingala)

Category: user ln

lo - ພາສາລາວ (Lao)

Category: user lo

lt - Lietuvių (Lithuanian)

Category: user lt

lv - Latviešu (Latvian)

Category: user lv

lzz - Lazuri Nena/Chanuri (Laz)

Category: user lzz

mg - Malagasy (Malagasy)

Category: user mg

mh - Ebon (Marshallese)

Category: user mh

mi - Māori (Maori)

Category: user mi

mk - Македонски (Macedonian)

Category: user mk

ml - മലയാളം (Malayalam)

Category: user ml

mn - Монгол (Mongolian)

Category: user mn

mo - Moldovenească (Moldovan)

Category: user mo

mr - मराठी (Marathi)

Category: user mr

ms - Bahasa Melayu (Malay)

Category: user ms

mt - bil-Malti (Maltese)

Category: user mt

mus - Mvskoke (Creek)

Category: user mus

my - ဗမာစာ (Burmese)

Category: user my

na - Ekakairũ Naoero (Nauruan)

Category: user na

nah - Nawatl (Nahuatl)

Category: user nah

nds - Plattdüütsch (Low Saxon)

Category: user nds

ne - नेपाली (Nepali)

Category: user ne

ng - Oshiwambo (Ndonga)

Category: user ng

nl - Nederlands (Dutch)

Category: user nl

nn - Nynorsk (Nynorsk)

Category: user nn

no - Norsk (Norwegian)

Category: user no

nv - Diné bizaad (Navajo)

Category: user nv

ny - Chi Chewa (Chichewa)

Category: user ny

oc - Langue d'Oc (Occitan)

Category: user oc

om - Oromifaa (Oromo)

Category: user om

or - ଓଡ଼ିଆ (Oriya)

Category: user or

os - Ирон æвзаг (Ossetian)

Category: user os

pa - ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (Punjabi)

Category: user pa

pam - Kapampangan (Kapampangan)

Category: user pam

pap - Papiamentu ( Papiamento)

Category: user pap

pi - pāli (Pali)

Category: user pi

pl - Polski (Polish)

Category: user pl

ps - پښتو (Pushtu)

Category: user ps

pt - Português (Portuguese)

Category: user pt

qu - Runa Simi (Quechua)

Category: user qu

rm - Rumantsch (Romansh)

Category: user rm

rn - Kirundi (Kirundi)

Category: user rn

ro - Română (Romanian)

Category: user ro

ru - Русский (Russian)

Category: user ru

rup - Armâneaşti (Aromanian)

Category: user rup

rw - Kinyarwandi (Kinyarwanda)

Category: user rw

sa - संस्कृत (Sanskrit)

Category: user sa

sc - Sardu (Sardinian)

Category: user sc

scn - Sicilianu (Sicilian)

Category: user scn

sco - Scots (Scots)

Category: user sco

sd - सिनधि (Sindhi)

Category: user sd

se - Sámegiella (Northern Sami)

Category: user se

sg - Sängö (Sango)

Category: user sg

sgn - Sign Languages (Sign Language)

Category: user sgn

Note that these require a a different syntax from that of other language templates; see Category:User sgn.

si - සිංහල (Sinhala)

Category: user si

simple - Simple English (Simple English )

Category: user simple

sk - Slovenčina (Slovak)

Category: user sk

sl - Slovenščina (Slovene)

Category: user sl

sm - Gagana Samoa (Samoan)

Category: user sm

sn - chiShona (Shona)

Category: user sn

so - Soomaaliga (Somali)

Category: user so

sq - Shqip (Albanian)

Category: user sq

sr - Српски (Serbian)

Category: user sr

ss - SiSwati (Swati)

Category: user ss

st - seSotho (Sesotho)

Category: user st

su - Basa Sunda (Sundanese)

Category: user su

sv - Svenska (Swedish)

Category: user sv

sw - Kiswahili (Swahili)

Category: user sw

ta - தமிழ் (Tamil)

Category: user ta

te - తెలుగు (Telugu)

Category: user te

tg - Тоҷикӣ (Tajik)

Category: user tg

th - ภาษาไทย (Thai)

Category: user th

ti - ትግርኛ (Tigrinya)

Category: user ti

tk - Türkmençe (Turkmen)

Category: user tk

tl - Tagalog (Tagalog)

Category: user tl

tlh - tlhIngan Hol (Klingon)

Category: user tlh

tn - Setswana (Tswana)

Category: user tn

to - Faka Tonga (Tongan)

Category: user to

tokipona - toki pona (Tokipona)

Category: user tokipona

tpi - Tok Pisin (Tok Pisin)

Category: user tpi

tr - Türkçe (Turkish)

Category: user tr

ts - Xitsonga (Tsonga)

Category: user ts

tt - Tatarça (Tatar)

Category: user tt

tum - chiTumbuka (Tumbuka)

Category: user tum

tvl - Tuvalu (Tuvaluan)

Category: user tvl

tw - Twi (Twi)

Category: user tw

ty - Reo Mā`ohi (Tahitian)

Category: user ty

ug - ئۇيغۇرچە (Uyghur)

Category: user ug

uk - Українська (Ukrainian)

Category: user uk

ur - اردو (Urdu)

Category: user ur

uz - Ўзбек (Uzbek)

Category: user uz

ve - Venda (Venda)

Category: user ve

vi - Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)

Category: user vi

vo - Volapük (Volapük)

Category: user vo

wa - Walon (Walloon)

Category: user wa

war - Winaray (Waray-Waray)

Category: user war

wo - Wolof (Wolof)

Category: user wo

xh - isiXhosa (Xhosa)

Category: user xh

yi - ייִדיש (Yiddish)

Category: user yi

yo - Yorùbá (Yorùbá)

Category: user yo

za - Cuengh (Zhuang)

Category: user za

zh - 中文 (Chinese)

Category: user zh

zh-hakka - 客家話 (Hakka)

Category: user zh-hakka

zh-min-nan - Bân-lâm-gú (Min Nan)

Category: user zh-min-nan

zh-yue - 粵語/粤语 (Cantonese)

Category: user zh-yue

zu - isiZulu (Zulu)

Category: user zu

Language-related Babel entries

ot - Wants to learn more languages (Languages)

Category: user ot

pig - Pig Latin (Pig Latin)

Category: user pig

en-B - Understands bullshit (Bullshit)

Category: user en-B

1337 - 1337 (1337)

Category: user 1337

Other Babel-like entries

See Templates for making babel style templates.


For information on Wikifying this language section, see Wikipedia:Hindi language user tag project

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