Template:PIE/doc

This template marks strings of text as being Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) content, a reconstructed language theorised to be the origin of the Indo-European languages family.

PIE text features superscript letters and a number of accents. Reconstructed words feature an asterisk before them as a conventional mark. Reconstructed sentences, phrases and paragraphs do not feature an asterisk at the start.

This template ' automatically italicise text; italics markup must be added ' the template. As PIE is not English, per MOS:FOREIGNITALIC, PIE text be italicised.

Examples
The PIE template can be used for paragraphs and singular words. For example:

Results in:

An example sentence in this template is:

Which results in:

This template on longer strings of text; this is because it forces the contents of the template  to wrap, and will instead produce a single long string that extends to the right of the page.

To use this template for more than a few words, add normal to allow the template to wrap text like a normal sentence or paragraph.

Post-PIE proto-languages
A number of proto-languages followed PIE, which are . This means that lang can be used. A number of ISO 639-2 language codes for post-PIE proto-languages are:


 * – Indo-European
 * – Baltic language
 * – Old Church Slavonic
 * – Slavic language
 * – Old East Slavic
 * – Old Norse
 * – Old English
 * – Gothic language
 * – Vandalic language
 * – Old High German
 * – Old Frankish
 * – Germanic languages
 * – Sanskrit
 * – Indo-Aryan languages
 * – Old Persian
 * – Median language
 * – Bactrian language
 * – Scythian
 * – Alanian
 * – Old Ossetian
 * – Iranian languages
 * – Umbrian language
 * – Venetic
 * – Faliscan language
 * – Old French
 * – Romance languages
 * – Lepontic language
 * – Pictish language
 * – Celtiberian language
 * – Cisalpine Gaulish
 * – Transalpine Gaulish
 * – Galatian
 * – Old Irish
 * – Celtic languages
 * – Classical Armenian
 * – Hittite language
 * – Old Hittite
 * – Middle Hittite
 * – New Hittite
 * – Cuneiform Luwian
 * – Hieroglyphic Luwian
 * – Lycian language
 * – Lydian language
 * – Ancient Greek
 * – Mycenaean Greek
 * – Ancient Macedonian language
 * – Phrygian language
 * – Dacian language
 * – Tocharian A
 * – Tocharian B

A wider list of ISO 639-3 language codes beginning with 'x', many of which are ancient and extinct languages, can be found here.

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