Module:gender and number

Gender and number is the (rather confusingly-named, honestly) module on Laenktionary that generates little snippets like for nouns, or like for verbs.

Mostly, you'll see this on higher level templates where you might be able to specify multiple "genders" as a list of parameters. This might look like:

{{lfv-noun|m|or|f}}

to generate a Laefevian noun with the gender .

There are specific genders/aspects/numbers defined, which can be seen in the script below. As in the example above, you can also specify "or" as a special one to create an option between two other "genders".

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local export = {}

local available_genders = {
	["n"] = {label = "n", hint = "neuter gender", category = "neuter %", group = "gender"},
	["f"] = {label = "f", hint = "feminine gender", category = "feminine %", group = "gender"},
	["m"] = {label = "m", hint = "masculine gender", category = "masculine %", group = "gender"},
	["c"] = {label = "c", hint = "common gender", category = "common %", group = "gender"},
	["d"] = {label = "du", hint = "dualia tantum", category = "dualia tantum %", group = "number"},
	["p"] = {label = "pl", hint = "pluralia tantum", category = "pluralia tantum %", group = "number"},
	["s"] = {label = "sg", hint = "singular number", category = nil, group = "number"},
	["in"] = {label = "inan", hint = "inanimate", category = "inanimate %", group = "animacy"},
	["an"] = {label = "anim", hint = "animate", category = "animate %", group = "animacy"},
	["pr"] = {label = "pers", hint = "personal", category = "personal %", group = "animacy"},
	["np"] = {label = "npers", hint = "nonpersonal", category = "nonpersonal %", group = "animacy"},
	["anml"] = {label = "animal", hint = "animal", category = "animal %", group = "animacy"},
	["nv"] = {label = "nvir", hint = "nonvirile", category = "nonvirile %", group = "virility"},
	["vr"] = {label = "vir", hint = "virile", category = "virile %", group = "virility"},
	["impf"] = {label = "impf", hint = "imperfective aspect", category = "imperfective %", group = "aspect"},
	["pf"] = {label = "pf", hint = "perfective aspect", category = "perfective %", group = "aspect"},
	["?"] = {label = "?", hint = "gender incomplete", category = nil, group = "other"},
	["?!"] = {label = "gender unattested", hint = "gender unattested", category = nil, group = "other"}
}
local combinations = {
	["mf"] = {"m", "or", "f"},
	["van"] = {"in", "or", "an"},
	["biasp"] = {"impf", "pf"}
}
local multiple_group_categories = {
	["gender"] = "% with multiple genders",
	["animacy"] = "% with multiple animacies",
	["aspect"] = "biaspectual %"
}

function export.show_list(frame)
	local args = frame.args
	local lang_code = args["lang"]
	local pos = args["pos"]
	if lang_code == nil or lang_code == "" then
		error("A language code must be given")
	end
	local genders = {}
	local i = 1
	
	while args[i] and args[i] ~= "" do
		table.insert(genders, args[i])
		i = i + 1
	end
	
	local text, cats = export.format_genders(lang_code, pos, genders)
	return text .. cats
end

function export.format_genders(lang_code, pos, genders)
	local language = require("Module:languages").get_by_code(lang_code)
	local parts = {}
	local groups = {}
	local cats = {}
	for _, g_code in ipairs(genders) do
		local split_codes = combinations[g_code] or mw.text.split(g_code, "-")
		for _, split_code in ipairs(split_codes) do
			if split_code == "or" then
				table.insert(parts, "or")
			else
				local gender = available_genders[split_code]
				if gender ~= nil then
					table.insert(parts, '<abbr title="' .. gender.hint .. '">' .. gender.label .. ">")
					if pos ~= nil then
						if groups[gender.group] == nil then
							table.insert(cats, "[[Category:" .. language.name .. " " .. string.gsub(gender.category, "%", pos .. "s") .. "]]")
							groups[gender.group] = 1
						else
							groups[gender.group] = groups[gender.group] + 1
						end
					end
				end
			end
		end
	end
	if pos ~= nil then
		for k, v in pairs(groups) do
			if type(v) == "number" and v > 1 and multiple_group_categories[k] ~= nil then
				table.insert(cats, "[[Category:" .. language.name .. " " .. string.gsub(multiple_group_categories[k], "%", pos) .. "]]")
			end
		end
	end
	return '<span class="gender">' .. table.concat(parts, " ") .. "</span>", pos and table.concat(cats)
end

return export