This template is to be placed in template documentation of user languages. It is intended primarily for userboxes (such as {{User en-ca-1}}), and it should not be placed on mainspace articles. It is written as (example for English):

{{Languages|English|en}}

You write only English (not language: the template writes that by itself).

For most languages, saying "language" after it is necessary to direct it straight to the language's mainspace page, but sometimes saying "language" directs it to a red link. To stop this problem put:

{{Languages|English|en|langvoid=}}

Most language userboxes are in the template namespace. For those in user space, add the |userspace=yes parameter:

{{Languages|Southern American English|UBX/SoE|userspace=yes}}

This template automatically puts the template in its User template category, to redirect to a different User templates category do this, using Scottish English as an example:

{{Languages|Scottish English|en-sco|catalt=en}}

By default the template categorizes templates like:

1
Template:User en-1

2
Template:User en-2

And so on, but if you wanted to replace these with different abbreviations such as:

c
Template:User en-ca-1
Template:User en-ca-2

e
Template:User en-1
Template:User en-2

Add |sections= with the abbreviated code, such as "ca" or "en", etc. Do not place the "-", at the end of "sections" as was done previously, this will mess up the sorting.

Some templates, such as the blank series and other fictional languages, do not need to have their own category. To void the category completely, use this wikitext markup text:

{{Languages|Spoken|blank|catvoid=}}

If all of these functions were used on one template they would look like this:

{{Languages|English|en|langvoid=|catvoid=|catalt=en|sections=us|#=N}}

Please note catalt, sections and # cannot exist if catvoid exists.

• {{Complang}}
• {{Language table}}