Template:Nationality/doc

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

Provides adjective form of region or country name in user's preferred language. Used for regions and present or historical countries not covered by {{CountryAdjective}} template.

This template has been copied from Commons as a guide for future development for Commons.
Not all functionality and not all languages supported by the original template may be available.
For further information and discussion see the talk page.

Usage

{{Nationality|1=|2=|3=|lang=}}

Parameters

Parameter name	Description	Default value	required or optional?
parameter #1 (1)	Nationality. Can be: Two letter Country code according to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2. See `{{CountryAdjective}}` for a full list of codes. Nationality name in English, like French or German. Region name in English. See allowed options below.	empty	required
parameter #2 (2)	Gender. Possible values: m or male - default option f or female n or neutral - Neuter (or neutral) gender used in some languages like Polish s - special case used in case of dual nationalities for ending of first nationality. Used in German, French, Polish, etc. Languages not needing n or s options should default to m.	m	required
parameter #3 (3)	this parameter tells the template whether to use the indefinite article (a/an) at the beginning or not (set to any non-empty value to add an article)	empty	optional
lang	language code (only needs to be provided if the language shall be fixed and independant from the user's preferences)	empty	optional

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: all namespaces

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Localization

To add your language to the list of languages supported by this template, please edit the template and add a row to the "{{LangSwitch|}}" construct. It takes the form "|xx=Your translation" (xx being the code of your language)

Region names and historical nationalities

Sortable table
Nationality	Output
arab
alexandrian
australasian
austro–hungarian
bohemian
byzantine
catalan
northern netherlandish
english
flemish
illyrian
inuit
javanese
jewish
korean
low german
ottoman
persian
phoenician
roman
silesian
scottish
southern netherlandish
soviet
tibetan
transylvanian saxon
venetian
walloon
welsh
yugoslavian

Examples

Sortable table
Code	Output	Notes
{{Nationality\|US\|m}}	American	Short notation - English output
{{Nationality\|French\|female}}		Long notation - Russian output
{{Nationality\|French\|female}}		Non-country name - Dutch output