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This is the documentation for [[Module:Labels]], the sense-label renderer for the Yezur wiki's Dictionary. It is not called directly: [[Template:Lb]] invokes it as <code><nowiki>{{#invoke:Labels|lb|CODE|label1|label2|…}}</nowiki></code>, passing a language code and up to seven labels. The module returns those labels comma-joined, italicised and parenthesised, in the order given — <code><nowiki>{{lb|YAP-XX|by extension}}</nowiki></code> renders ''(by extension)'' at the head of a definition line — and appends a per-language category for each label it recognises. When no label survives trimming it returns nothing at all.

== Parameters ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Parameter !! Purpose
|-
| <code>1</code> || The language code, such as <code>YBS-PJ</code>. It is trimmed and matched without regard to case in [[Module:Languages]], which supplies the display name used in the category titles; the code itself is never shown.
|-
| <code>2</code>, <code>3</code>, … || The labels, in display order. Each is trimmed, and empty values are skipped. Reading stops at the first argument that is absent altogether, which only affects direct invocation: [[Template:Lb]] always supplies slots 2 to 8, so unfilled slots between filled ones do no harm.
|}

== Categorising labels ==

A label in the table below files the page into a category named after the language, written ''Lang'' here: under <code>YBS-PJ</code>, <code>transitive</code> adds [[:Category:Pjany transitive verbs]]. Recognition ignores case, but only a shorthand is rewritten — the shorthands in the second column are replaced by the canonical label before display, whereas a canonical label is shown exactly as typed, so <code>Transitive</code> renders ''(Transitive)'' and categorises all the same.

{| class="wikitable"
! Label !! Shorthand !! Category
|-
! colspan="3" | Verbs
|-
| <code>transitive</code> || <code>tr</code> || ''Lang'' transitive verbs
|-
| <code>intransitive</code> || <code>intr</code> || ''Lang'' intransitive verbs
|-
| <code>ambitransitive</code> || || ''Lang'' ambitransitive verbs
|-
| <code>ditransitive</code> || <code>ditr</code> || ''Lang'' ditransitive verbs
|-
| <code>ergative</code> || || ''Lang'' ergative verbs
|-
| <code>reflexive</code> || || ''Lang'' reflexive verbs
|-
| <code>impersonal</code> || || ''Lang'' impersonal verbs
|-
| <code>copulative</code> || || ''Lang'' copulative verbs
|-
| <code>auxiliary</code> || || ''Lang'' auxiliary verbs
|-
| <code>modal</code> || || ''Lang'' modal verbs
|-
| <code>causative</code> || || ''Lang'' causative verbs
|-
| <code>deponent</code> || || ''Lang'' deponent verbs
|-
| <code>pronominal</code> || || ''Lang'' pronominal verbs
|-
| <code>reciprocal</code> || || ''Lang'' reciprocal verbs
|-
! colspan="3" | Nouns
|-
| <code>countable</code> || <code>count</code> || ''Lang'' countable nouns
|-
| <code>uncountable</code> || <code>uncount</code> || ''Lang'' uncountable nouns
|-
| <code>collective</code> || || ''Lang'' collective nouns
|-
| <code>singular only</code> || || ''Lang'' singular-only nouns
|-
| <code>plural only</code> || || ''Lang'' plural-only nouns
|-
| <code>attributive</code> || || ''Lang'' attributive terms
|-
! colspan="3" | Adjectives
|-
| <code>comparable</code> || || ''Lang'' comparable adjectives
|-
| <code>not comparable</code> || || ''Lang'' uncomparable adjectives
|-
| <code>predicative</code> || || ''Lang'' predicative-only terms
|-
! colspan="3" | Register and usage
|-
| <code>slang</code> || || ''Lang'' slang
|-
| <code>colloquial</code> || <code>colloq</code> || ''Lang'' colloquialisms
|-
| <code>informal</code> || || ''Lang'' informal terms
|-
| <code>formal</code> || || ''Lang'' formal terms
|-
| <code>vulgar</code> || || ''Lang'' vulgarities
|-
| <code>derogatory</code> || <code>derog</code> || ''Lang'' derogatory terms
|-
| <code>offensive</code> || || ''Lang'' offensive terms
|-
| <code>slur</code> || || ''Lang'' slurs
|-
| <code>euphemistic</code> || <code>euph</code> || ''Lang'' euphemisms
|-
| <code>dysphemistic</code> || || ''Lang'' dysphemisms
|-
| <code>humorous</code> || <code>hum</code> || ''Lang'' humorous terms
|-
| <code>endearing</code> || || ''Lang'' terms of endearment
|-
| <code>familiar</code> || || ''Lang'' familiar terms
|-
| <code>childish</code> || || ''Lang'' childish terms
|-
| <code>honorific</code> || || ''Lang'' honorifics
|-
| <code>humble</code> || || ''Lang'' humble terms
|-
| <code>polite</code> || || ''Lang'' polite terms
|-
| <code>solemn</code> || || ''Lang'' solemn terms
|-
| <code>poetic</code> || || ''Lang'' poetic terms
|-
| <code>literary</code> || || ''Lang'' literary terms
|-
| <code>journalistic</code> || || ''Lang'' journalistic terms
|-
| <code>technical</code> || || ''Lang'' technical terms
|-
| <code>rustic</code> || || ''Lang'' rustic terms
|-
| <code>proscribed</code> || || ''Lang'' proscribed terms
|-
| <code>nonstandard</code> || || ''Lang'' nonstandard terms
|-
| <code>dialectal</code> || || ''Lang'' dialectal terms
|-
! colspan="3" | Temporal
|-
| <code>archaic</code> || <code>arch</code> || ''Lang'' archaic terms
|-
| <code>dated</code> || || ''Lang'' dated terms
|-
| <code>obsolete</code> || <code>obs</code> || ''Lang'' obsolete terms
|-
| <code>historical</code> || || ''Lang'' historical terms
|-
| <code>rare</code> || || ''Lang'' rare terms
|-
| <code>uncommon</code> || || ''Lang'' uncommon terms
|-
| <code>neologism</code> || || ''Lang'' neologisms
|-
! colspan="3" | Word formation
|-
| <code>abbreviation</code> || || ''Lang'' abbreviations
|-
| <code>acronym</code> || || ''Lang'' acronyms
|-
| <code>initialism</code> || || ''Lang'' initialisms
|-
| <code>contraction</code> || || ''Lang'' contractions
|-
| <code>onomatopoeia</code> || || ''Lang'' onomatopoeias
|-
| <code>misspelling</code> || || ''Lang'' misspellings
|-
| <code>eye dialect</code> || || ''Lang'' eye dialect
|}

One further shorthand, <code>fig</code>, expands to <code>figurative</code>, which is not a categorising label.

A label absent from the table is shown exactly as typed and adds no category, so domain tags such as <code>nautical</code> or <code>botany</code> and semantic qualifiers such as <code>figurative</code> or <code>idiomatic</code> work without any entry here. The categorising set is deliberately partial and is meant to grow as the category scheme is settled; it is curated from Wiktionary's label data, keeping the universal linguistic labels — valency, register, temporal, word formation — and leaving out the topical and regional domains.

Categories are added only when the code resolves in [[Module:Languages]]; an unknown or missing code still displays the labels, uncategorised. The module adds membership only — it does not create the category description pages, and most of the categories above are as yet empty.

For the division of labour between a per-sense label and the per-word <code>register</code> field of <code><nowiki>{{head}}</nowiki></code>, see [[Template:Lb]].

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