Manual of Style/Language

The Traveller wiki recommends the following organizational layout for an individual language.

• No one is required to use these suggested layouts and if you see potential improvements to one of these organizational layouts, please bring it up with an administrator or on the discussion pages.

Basic Language Template WIP (Last update: October 2019)

[[File: Imperial-Sunburst-Orange-wiki.png|right|125px]]
[[TBD]] is a [[language]] that is primarily used by the [[TBD]] race throughout the [[TBD]] polity.
* It is a [category] language.

== Description ([[Specifications]]) ==
No information yet available.

== History & Background ([[Dossier]]) ==
''Historical Linguistics:'' No information yet available.

== [[World]]s & [[Sector]]s ([[Astrography]]) ==
This language is primarily in use in the following areas: <br>
''[[Charted Space]]:''
* [[TBD Sector]]
** [[TBD Subsector]]

=== Homeworld: 1105 ===
The [[homeworld]] of this [[language]] is:
* [[TBD (world)]]

=== World Listing: 1105 ===
Significant communities of speakers of this [[language]] are known to reside within the following [[system]]s and [[world]]s: 
{{ClusterWorlds2}}

== References & Contributors ([[Sources]]) ==
{{Intermediate}}
{{Detail}}
{{Sources
|S1= TBD
|S2= [[Traveller Wiki Editorial Team]]
|S3= Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]]
}}


{{LE|Language}}

Advanced Language Template (2016)

 
[[File: Imperial-Sunburst-Orange-wiki.png|right|125px]]
[[TBD]] is a [[language]] that is primarily used by the [[TBD]] race throughout the [[TBD]] polity.
* It is a [category] language.

== Description ([[Specifications]]) ==
No information yet available.

=== Structure ===
No information yet available.

==== Morphology ====
Morphology is the study of the internal structure of words.
* Morpheme, inflection, paradigm, declension, derivation, compound, etc.

==== Phonology ==== 
Phonology, the study of the sound systems of a language.
* Phoneme, allophone, segment, mora, syllable, foot, stress, tone, etc.

==== Grammar ====
Grammar is the structure of a language.
* Tense, aspect, mood and modality, grammatical number, grammatical gender, case, etc.

==== Syntax ====
Syntax is the study of how words combine to form grammatical sentences.
* Phrase, clause, grammatical function, grammatical voice, etc.

=== Meaning === 
No information yet available.

==== Lexicology ====
A lexicon is the word supply of a language. 
* Word, lexeme, lemma, lexicon, vocabulary, terminology, etc.

==== Semantics ====
Semantics is the study of the meaning of words (lexical semantics), and how these combine to form the meanings of sentences.
* Meaning, sense, entailment, truth condition, compositionality, etc.

==== Pragmatics ====
Pragmatics is the study of how language is used by its speakers.
* Presupposition, implicature, deixis

== History & Background (Historical Linguistics) ==
No information yet available.

== [[World]]s & [[Sector]]s ([[Astrography]]) ==
This language is primarily in use in the following areas: <br>
''[[Charted Space]]:''
* [[TBD Sector]]
** [[TBD Subsector]]

=== Homeworld: 1105 ===
The [[homeworld]] of this [[language]] is:
* [[TBD (world)]]

=== World Listing: 1105 ===
Significant communities of speakers of this [[language]] are known to reside within the following [[system]]s and [[world]]s: 
{{ClusterWorlds2}}

== References & Contributors ([[Sources]]) ==
{{Intermediate}}
{{Detail}}
{{Sources
|S1= TBD
|S2= [[Traveller Wiki Editorial Team]]
|S3= Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]]
}}


{{LE|Language}}