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

Examples

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

''{{PIE|*wódr̥}}''

Results in:

*wódr̥

An example sentence in this template is:

''{{PIE|rēḱs deiwos-kʷe}}''

Which results in:

rēḱs deiwos-kʷe

This template may cause problems on longer strings of text; this is because it forces the contents of the template not 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 |wrap=normal to allow the template to wrap text like a normal sentence or paragraph.

Post-PIE proto-languages

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A number of proto-languages followed PIE, which are not reconstructed. This means that {{lang}} can be used. A number of ISO 639-2 language codes for post-PIE proto-languages are:

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

Template data

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This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:PIE in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for PIE

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Template parameters

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wrapwrap

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See also

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