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Paleo-siberian \| Palaeosiberian \| Palaeo-Siberian \| Palaeo-siberian = Paleosiberian	pink = Austronesian	Austro-asiatic \| Austroasiatic \| lightcoral = Austro-Asiatic	tomato = Sino-Tibetan	Hmong-Mien = Hmong-Mien	orchid = Australian	violet = Papuan	lavender = Tai-Kadai	lightblue = American	Na-Dené \| deepskyblue = Na-Dené	Dené-Yeniseian \| deepskyblue = Dené-Yeniseian	lightcyan = Eskimo-Aleut	creole = Creole	pidgin = Pidgin	mixed = Mixed	isolate \| language isolate \| #dddddd = language isolate	sign \| sign language \| silver = sign language	conlang \| constructed language \| black = constructed language	default \| white = —	}}	{{ switch:Sign																					Afro-asiatic \| yellow = Afro-Asiatic	orange = Niger-Congo	gold = Nilo-Saharan	goldenrod = Khoisan	lawngreen = Indo-European	lightgreen = Caucasian	yellowgreen = Altaic	limegreen = Uralic	mediumspringgreen = Dravidian	Paleo-Siberian \| Paleo-siberian \| Palaeosiberian \| Palaeo-Siberian \| Palaeo-siberian = Paleosiberian	pink = Austronesian	Austro-asiatic \| Austroasiatic \| lightcoral = Austro-Asiatic	tomato = Sino-Tibetan	Hmong-Mien = Hmong-Mien	orchid = Australian	violet = Papuan	lavender = Tai-Kadai	lightblue = American	Na-Dené \| deepskyblue = Na-Dené	Dené-Yeniseian \| deepskyblue = Dené-Yeniseian	lightcyan = Eskimo-Aleut	creole = Creole	pidgin = Pidgin	mixed = Mixed	isolate \| language isolate \| #dddddd = language isolate	sign \| sign language \| silver = sign language	conlang \| constructed language \| black = constructed language	default \| white = —	}}	{{ switch:Conlang																				Afro-asiatic \| yellow = Afro-Asiatic	orange = Niger-Congo	gold = Nilo-Saharan	goldenrod = Khoisan	lawngreen = Indo-European	lightgreen = Caucasian	yellowgreen = Altaic	limegreen = Uralic	mediumspringgreen = Dravidian	Paleo-Siberian \| Paleo-siberian \| Palaeosiberian \| Palaeo-Siberian \| Palaeo-siberian = Paleosiberian	pink = Austronesian	Austro-asiatic \| Austroasiatic \| lightcoral = Austro-Asiatic	tomato = Sino-Tibetan	Hmong-Mien = Hmong-Mien	orchid = Australian	violet = Papuan	lavender = Tai-Kadai	lightblue = American	Na-Dené \| deepskyblue = Na-Dené	Dené-Yeniseian \| deepskyblue = Dené-Yeniseian	lightcyan = Eskimo-Aleut	creole = Creole	pidgin = Pidgin	mixed = Mixed	isolate \| language isolate \| #dddddd = language isolate	sign \| sign language \| silver = sign language	conlang \| constructed language \| black = constructed language	default \| white = —	}}

The template should placed at the very top of the wikitext of the article, before any text. The absolute basic syntax is as shown below:

{{Infobox Language ← this calls the template

|name=name of language ← the name of the language needs to be given

|familycolor=appropriate language family ← refer to the coloured chart to the right (or above, depending on your browser), and type the name shown there; this will add the appropriate family color to the template top

}} ← this ends the template call

However, you will probably want to add more than just this. Other parameters are listed below, they can be incorporated anywhere between the first and last lines, and in any order.

Code

How to incorporate the template into an article: the basics

Some more parameters