Category:Language articles without language codes

This category is triggered by language infoboxes which do not contain any language codes, such as ISO 639-3, LingList, Guthrie, etc. (ISO 639-2 does not count, as it is not language-specific in such cases.)

Ideally, this category should be empty, apart from unclassified varieties such as Danzhou dialect, which (as of 2012) are not clearly a dialect of an ISO language, but not clearly a distinct language either.

For languages which are simply not covered by ISO, enter, and the article will appear in a dedicated category.

For dialects of languages which are covered by ISO, add the parameter. This is how dialects should normally be treated, as ISO codes are not generally dialect-specific and therefore should not be used in such cases;  is similarly inappropriate for dialects subsumed under the ISO code of their parent language. Linguist List, Linguasphere, Guthrie and AIATSIS may, however, provide dedicated codes that are appropriate for dialect articles; if one of these is added, the article will appear in a separate category.

If  is set to , the article won't be listed in any category at all. This is used so that archived talk pages with discussions of the info box won't pollute the category.