Thread:Talk:Languages by language family/Localisation of page

It is possible to make the names of the languages listed appear in the user interface language by replacing the English text in the language portal link with the wikitext. The software will go to the database of language names taken from CLDR and produce the name of the localised language name. If CLDR does not have a localised name for the language the software will fall back, eventually to English. Occasionally the English name is missing from the language portal, which may indicate that it is missing from the CLDR database.

However, the language group names are written in English on the listing. If we were to replace the English text above with localised text, we would then end up with a mixture of English and localised text which might end up being very confusing.

Another possibility would be to add the localised name in brackets after the English name. The disadvantage of this perhaps is that the page wouldn't look as good as before, especially in English where you would just be adding the same name in brackets.

For now, I will not change the set-up of the page, but am posting this to allow discussion of the potential localisation of this page.