Template:En

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English: abc

Adds "

English:

" in front of the text written in English. Also adds machine-readable tags identifying the text as being written in English.

The template automatically sets the following categories: Category:Language templates with no text displayed (if parameter #1 is empty)

Usage

{{en |1= }}

Template parameters

Parameter	Description		Default	Status
inline	inline	optional, default is empty string. When set to any value different from an empty string, forces the template to be displayed inline, so that it does not break the current paragraph (i.e. that makes possible to put several descriptions side by side on a single line)	empty	optional
1	text	Text to be displayed. Please proceed the text with "1=", otherwise any "=" characters in the text will break the template.	empty	required

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: all namespaces

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Relies on:
{{description}}

Example

{{en|1=Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuwxyz}}

renders as:

English: Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuwxyz

⧼Seealso⧽

• Commons:Localization
• {{#language:}} - Returns the local language name of a language code.
• {{language}} - Returns the translated language name of a language code.

Localization

This template is not intended to be localized.

It relies on {{#language:...}} parser function for localization.

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