Module:languages/doc

This module is used to retrieve and manage the languages that can have Wiktionary entries, and the information associated with them. See Wiktionary:Languages for more information.

For the languages and language varieties that may be used in etymologies, see Module:etymology languages. For language families, which sometimes also appear in etymologies, see Module:families.

This module provides access to other modules. To access the information from within a template, see Module:languages/templates.

The information itself is stored in the various data modules that are subpages of this module. These modules should not be used directly by any other module, the data should only be accessed through the functions provided by this module.

Data submodules:

• Two-letter codes
• Three-letter codes by their first letter: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
• Codes containing hyphens (-)

Extra data submodules (for less frequently used data):

• Two-letter codes
• Three-letter codes by their first letter: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
• Codes containing hyphens (-)

Finding and retrieving languages

The module exports a number of functions that are used to find languages.

Language objects

A Language object is returned from one of the functions above. It is a Lua representation of a language and the data associated with it. It has a number of methods that can be called on it, using the : syntax. For example:

local m_languages = require("Module:languages")
local lang = m_languages.getByCode("fr")
local name = lang:getCanonicalName()
-- "name" will now be "French"

Error function

See Module:languages/error.

See also

• {{Module:families}}