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Template:Lang-el

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This template uses Lua: Module:lang (sandbox)

Usage

The primary objective of this template (and of the other {{lang}} templates) is to tag non-English text so that both human and machine readers are able to properly interpret, display and understand non-English text as part of an effort to move towards a semantic web. To that end, proper use of these templates helps web browsers to choose the correct display font, text-to-speech screen readers to select a more appropriate pronunciation, search engines to better index and relate the context of the content, translation services to properly interpret the words, spell checkers to properly allow and/or require diacritics, and so on.

Important metadata

Regardless of the label that is displayed in front of the text (e.g.: "Ancient Greek:" vs. "Greek:" vs. "Modern Greek"), this template will always wrap the supplied Greek text inside of appropriate HTML <span>...</span> tags – that is to say that the Greek text will be tagged using the ISO 639-1 language code for Modern Greek: "el". The following example wikicode:

{{lang-el|άτομο}}

produces the following HTML:

<a href="/wiki/Greek language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>:

<span lang="el" xml:lang="el">άτομο</span>

This metadata identifies the enclosed text as Modern Greek for the benefit of search engines, browsers, screen readers, translators, typesetters, and so on. To these "non-human readers", Modern Greek (encoded as "el") has important distinctions from e.g. Ancient Greek (appropriately encoded using "grc" by other {{lang}} templates). For that reason, this template should never be used with Ancient or Medieval or other Greek text.

Parameters

† compare |italic=invertto|italic=unset:

{{Lang-de|... ein neues Opernprojekt in Angriff: ''Das Käthchen von Heilbronn'', nach Heinrich von Kleists gleichnamigem Drama.|italic=invert}}

German: ... ein neues Opernprojekt in Angriff: Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, nach Heinrich von Kleists gleichnamigem Drama.

{{Lang-de|''... ein neues Opernprojekt in Angriff: ''Das Käthchen von Heilbronn'', nach Heinrich von Kleists gleichnamigem Drama.''|italic=unset}}

German: ... ein neues Opernprojekt in Angriff: Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, nach Heinrich von Kleists gleichnamigem Drama.

Syntax

{{lang-el

|Modern Greek text – using the Greek alphabet (with diacritics). (mandatory)

|links=value – valid values: yes to have the language name linked (default) and no to prevent the language name from being linked. (optional)

|lit=string – valid strings are English translations of the Greek text. (optional)

|translit=string – valid strings are transliterations (with the Latin script) of the Greek text. (optional)

}}

Examples

Code	Result
{{lang-el|άτομο}}	Greek: άτομο
{{lang-el|άτομο|links=yes}}	Greek: άτομο
{{lang-el|άτομο|links=no}}	Greek: άτομο
'''Nea Dimokratia''' - {{Lang-el|Νέα Δημοκρατία|translit=Nea Dimokratia}}	Nea Dimokratia - Greek: Νέα Δημοκρατία, romanized: Nea Dimokratia
'''Eleftherotypia''' - {{Lang-el|Ελευθεροτυπία|lit=Freedom of the Press}}	Eleftherotypia - Greek: Ελευθεροτυπία, lit. 'Freedom of the Press'

Tracking categories

• Articles using this template are automatically placed in Category:Articles containing Greek-language text (26,344).
• Category:Instances of Lang-el using second unnamed parameter (1,183) - nothing inherently wrong if supplied {{{2}}}, but was created to check for compliance with template scheme.

TemplateData

See also

• {{lang-gkm}} for Medieval Greek.
• {{lang-grc}} for Ancient Greek.
• {{lang-grc-gre}} for which the Ancient Greek description is not satisfactory or limiting.
• {{lang|el}} tags Modern Greek text, without the label (for use with custom display, and other uses).
• {{lang|ell}} tags Modern Greek text, without the label (for use with custom display, and other uses).
• {{lang|grc}} tags Ancient Greek text, without the label (for use with custom display, and other uses).
• {{transl|el}} tags text as "Greek Transliteration" (has no visible effect other than said tag when pointer is placed on text).