This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page
Return information about available languages.
Continuation may be applied if retrieving the information takes too long for one request.
Specific parameters:
- liprop
Which information to get for each language.
- code
- The language code. (This code is MediaWiki-specific, though there are overlaps with other standards.)
- bcp47
- The BCP-47 language code.
- dir
- The writing direction of the language (either
ltr or rtl).
- autonym
- The autonym of the language, that is, the name in that language.
- name
- The name of the language in the language specified by the uselang parameter, with language fallbacks applied if necessary.
- fallbacks
- The language codes of the fallback languages configured for this language. The implicit final fallback to 'en' is not included (but some languages may fall back to 'en' explicitly).
- variants
- The language codes of the variants supported by this language.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): autonym, bcp47, code, dir, fallbacks, name, variants
- Default: code
- licode
Language codes of the languages that should be returned, or * for all languages.
- Separate values with | or alternative.
- Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients that are allowed higher limits).
- Default: *
- licontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org.