Template:Infobox proto-language/doc

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This template is for use in articles about reconstructed proto-languages.

{{Infobox proto-language
| name        = name of the proto-language #REQUIRED
| altname     = alternative name(s) of the proto-language
| region      = the hypothetical geographic region of the proto-language
| era         = the estimated era of the proto-language
| family      = the language family of which this in the proto-language
| familycolor = appropriate language family #REQUIRED
| ancestor    = the highest-level reconstructed proto-language ancestral to this one
| ancestor2   = an intermediate proto-language
| ...
| ancestor5   = another intermediate proto-language
| children    = the group of languages of which this is the last common ancestor
| child1      = a reconstructed descendant proto-language, of a subgroup of the family
| child2      = another proto-language of a subgroup of languages
| ...
| child12     = another proto-language of a subgroup of languages
| listclass   = class for the list of children: plainlist (default), hlist (horizontal) or flatlist (bulleted)
| boxsize     = overrides default width of infobox, currently set at 22em. Format must include units ("12em" or "123px"). 
                Useful when an article has various 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
}}

The familycolor parameter should always be set, and determines the color of template headings indicating the broad group of languages to which the family belongs. Some of these groups (e.g. Altaic, Caucasian) are areal groups rather than accepted language families.

• Template:Infobox language
• Template:Infobox language family