Capitalization of Wiktionary pages
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This page is a documentation of the use of capitalization in page titles on Wiktionary. Particular emphasis is placed on this project, a dictionary project where definitions should not be capitalized.
Capitalization of Wiktionaries Edit
Note: automatic capitalization has been turned off since 2006 for all Wiktionaries.
The following Wiktionaries differentiate capitalized words with non-capitalized words in page titles:
Languages without capitalization Edit
Languages that do not have capital letters in their usual script:
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Languages with capitalization Edit
Languages that have capital letters:
Capitalization of language names Edit
Languages that capitalize language names (i.e. English vs. english):
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Languages that do not capitalize language names:
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Capitalization of names of peoples Edit
Languages that always capitalize names of peoples, either as nouns or as adjectives (e.g. the Germans = the German people):
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Languages that capitalize names of peoples only as nouns but not as adjectives (e.g. the Germans = the german people); these languages often make distinction between the capitalized noun for nationality and the adjective for culture (origin, language spoken):
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Languages that do not capitalize names of peoples:
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To be classified:
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Capitalization of month names Edit
Languages that capitalize month names (i.e. March vs. march):
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Languages that do not capitalize month names:
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Capitalization of day names Edit
Languages that capitalize day names (i.e. Monday vs. monday):
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Languages that do not capitalize day names:
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