Template:Lang-grc

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Usage

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code grc
rtl no
style: inherit

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 help 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 (i.e.: "Ancient Greek:" vs. "Greek"), this template will always wrap the supplied Ancient Greek text inside of appropriate HTML <span>...</span> tags – that is to say that the Ancient Greek text will be tagged using the ISO 639-2 and ISO-639-3 language code for Ancient Greek: "grc". The following example wikicode:

{{lang-grc|ἄτομος|átomos|indivisible, an atom}}

produces the following HTML:

<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a>:
<span lang="grc" xml:lang="grc">ἄτομος</span>
<span title="Ancient Greek transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none"><i>átomos</i></span>
"indivisible, an atom"

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

Parameters

{{#lst:Template:Lang-x/doc/parameters|lang_xx_parameters}}

Syntax

{{lang-grc
|Ancient Greek text – using the Greek polytonic alphabet (with diacritics). (mandatory) – must be the 1st field
|transliterated text – the same text, transliterated using Latin alphabet (see Romanization of Greek). (optional) – must be the 2nd field
|translated text – in English. (optional) – must be the 3rd field
}}

Examples

Code Result
ἄτομος}} Ancient Greek: ἄτομος
ἄτομος|átomos}} Ancient Greek: ἄτομος, romanized: átomos
ἄτομος|átomos|indivisible, an atom}} Ancient Greek: ἄτομος, romanized: átomos, lit. 'indivisible, an atom'
ἄτομος| |indivisible, an atom (lit: 'that cannot be cut')}}  Ancient Greek: ἄτομος, lit. 'indivisible, an atom (lit: 'that cannot be cut')' 

Category

Articles using this template are automatically placed in Category:Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly error report for this template.

TemplateData for Lang-grc

Insert Greek text. This template should only be used with modern Greek.

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Text1

The Greek text to be displayed

Linerequired
Link?links

If a link to the article Greek language is included

Default
yes
Booleanoptional
Litlit

English translation of Greek text

Stringoptional
Transliterationtranslit

A Latin alphabet respelling of Greek text

Stringoptional

See also

  • {{lang-el}} for Modern Greek.
  • {{lang-ell}} for Modern Greek explicitly stated and linked so in the label.
  • {{lang-gkm}} for Medieval Greek.
  • {{lang-grc-gre}} for which the Ancient Greek description is not satisfactory or limiting.
  • {{lang-grc-koi}} for Koine Greek.
  • {{lang|el}} and {{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|grc}} tags text as "Ancient Greek Transliteration" (has no visible effect other than said tag when pointer is placed on text).
  • {{grc icon}}