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''This template is for use in articles about reconstructed [[proto-language]]s.''

==Usage==

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{{Infobox proto-language family

| name = name of the proto-language #REQUIRED(defaults to the page name)

| altname = alternative name(s) of the proto-language

| acceptance = used to indicate lack of consensus for the family that is reconstructed,

e.g. disputed for Proto-Altaic

| familytarget = the grouplanguage of languagesfamily of which this is the last commonreconstructed ancestor

| region = the hypothetical geographic region of the proto-language

| era = the estimated era of the proto-language

| familycolor = appropriate language family #REQUIRED

| ancestor = the highest-level reconstructed proto-language ancestral to this one

| family = the group of languages of which this is the last common ancestor

| region ancestor2 = geographican region from which thatintermediate proto-language family originated

| ...

| ancestor = proto-language of the largest widely accepted enclosing family

| ancestor10 = another intermediate proto-language

| ancestor2 = (to ancestor5) proto-languages of intermediate groupings

| child1 = a reconstructed descendant proto-language, of a subgroup of languagesthe family

| child2 = another proto-language of a subgroup of languages

| ...

| child20child12 = another proto-language of a subgroup of languages

| children listclass = whateverclass youfor wantthe tolist sayof children:

| listclass = class for the list of children: plainlist (default), hlist (horizontal) or flatlist (bulleted)

| boxsize = overrides default width of infobox, currently set at(default 22em). Format mustMust include units (e.g. "12em" or "123px").

UsefulThis is useful when an article has variousmultiple infoboxes aligned in a column. (Box will automatically expand to fix map wider than default box width.)

| module = used for embedding other infoboxes into this one

| notes = A space for notes, e.g., "* [something here]" footnote

}}

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==Background colors by family==

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