Template talk:Infobox country languages

Sign languages so low down...

Why oh why are sign languages relegated to the literal bottom of the list, below even immigrant and foreign languages?! This is an explicit effort to demote the role and place sign languages have in society, and it should be corrected. In my view, sign languages should be two up, above both foreign and immigrant languages but below vernacular ones. Remember, sign languages and oral languages are the same: Both categories include vast numbers of diverse, unrelated and inter-related languages. Indeed, sign languages can be immigrant/foreign languages just like oral languages can. For example, prior to the shift to Auslan, British Sign Language was an immigrant/foreign language to the Australian continent, which is home to around two dozen manual Indigenous languages. Same example, Irish Sign Language was also an immigrant/foreign language which has since shifted to become Australian Irish Sign Language.

Please, someone who can do so, fix this! Sign languages should not be relegated to the bottom of the list.

Danachos (talk) 20:11, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Keyboard layout parameter

I realize that this parameter has been in this infobox for a long time, but is it really necessary? Infoboxes are supposed to be a summation of key important information, not every true fact. A tiny picture of a keyboard doesn't seem relevant enough for the infobox. In my opinion, the parameter should be deprecated and removed. SnowFire (talk) 06:44, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

Extinct languages

Is the intent of this infobox template only to include living languages within a country? I raised this question on Talk:Languages of New Zealand where I had removed Moriori from the infobox and it was pointed out that extinct languages are not necessarily excluded from the infobox, which they appear not to be. Roger 8 Roger (talk) 22:20, 22 January 2023 (UTC)