Template:Lang/doc

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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Lang. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template uses Lua: Module:Lang (sandbox)

The purpose of this template is to indicate that a span of text belongs to a particular language. It often makes no visible changes to the text but can prompt web browsers to use a more appropriate font or screen readers to use a particular kind of pronunciation and so on. See § Rationale for more information.