Module:Besoh/doc

This is the documentation for Module:Besoh, the inflection and estimated-pronunciation module for Besoh (registry code YCQ-BE) on the Yezur wiki. It is not called directly: Template:YCQ-BE-decl invokes decl for the noun table and Template:YCQ-BE-conj invokes conj for the verb table, each with {{#invoke:Besoh|…}}. Both build every form from one headword and print an estimated pronunciation beneath each. The paradigms are those set out at Dictionary:About Besoh.

Parameters

Parameter	Purpose
word	The headword the table is built from. Defaults to the page name, which is what entries rely on; set it only where the page name is not the citation form.
1	The same, given positionally. word takes precedence.

Both are read from the calling template's arguments, not from #invoke: a value passed straight to #invoke is ignored and the page name used instead.

Noun forms

decl prints a wikitable of the bare, dative and locative forms in singular and plural.

Cell	Ending	Derivation
Plural	-u, after a vowel -'u	A final e or o is absorbed into the ending (medo → medu); other vowel-final stems take the glottal (śizu → śizu'u); consonants and the glottal take plain -u (san → sanu, ho' → ho'u).
Dative	bi	The postposition, written solid with the noun (gisbobi, gisbubi).
Locative singular	-on, after a vowel -'on	sanon, ña'on.
Locative plural	—	The locative of the plural, with the sequence 'u' reduced to '. Where the plural ends in -'u, the plural locative therefore falls together with the singular (śizu'on is both); elsewhere the two stay distinct (sanu'on beside sanon).

Every cell links to Dictionary:form#Besoh except the citation form, which is left unlinked.

Verb forms

conj prints a wikitable of the stative and the perfect, and of the two combined.

Cell	Ending	Derivation
Stative	-va	humva, serva.
Perfect	va'	The particle preposed as a separate word: va' hum.
Perfect stative	va' and -va	The particle before the stative: va' humva.

The plain–plain cell is a dash. The stative is linked; the two perfect cells are phrases of two words and are not.

Estimated pronunciation

Besoh spelling is conservative, so each form in the tables is passed through the module's own rendering of the spoken laws. Letters not listed have their face values.

Letters	Sounds
ś ź	ʃ ʒ
c j	ʦ ʣ
ñ	ɲ
n	ŋ
ĥ ĝ	x ɣ
ǵ	ʁ
'	ʔ
ä ë ï ö ü	aː eː iː oː uː

The following then apply, in this order.

Change	Example
iu becomes /y/	kovĥiu /kɔvçy/
ĥ becomes /ç/ before i, e and /y/	kovĥiu /kɔvçy/
A final n is dropped, leaving nasality on the vowel before it; it survives under suffixation	san /sã/, sanu /saŋu/
A final ' is a catch on the vowel, /ˀ/; elsewhere it stays /ʔ/	sagobbe' /saɣɔbbeˀ/, ña'on /ɲaʔõ/
b d g become /β ð ɣ/ between vowels	gisbobi /gizboβi/
e o become /ɛ ɔ/ in a closed syllable, that is before two consonants or before one at the end	hev /hɛf/, sagobbe' /saɣɔbbeˀ/
A final e or o becomes /əː/, where a vowel stands earlier in the word and the e or o does not follow a vowel or a long vowel directly	medo /meðəː/
Obstruents assimilate voicing regressively	keśva /kɛʒva/, gisbu /gizbu/
A final obstruent devoices	hev /hɛf/

Stress is not estimated. The laws that key on the end of the word are applied to the end of the whole string, so in the two-word perfect they reach the second word only and the particle is printed /vaʔ/ rather than the /vaˀ/ it would have alone.

The module does not call Module:Auphen: it carries the laws above in Lua of its own. The same laws are held as data at Module:Auphen/YCQ-BE, which is what {{auphen|word|YCQ-BE}} reads for the Pronunciation line of an entry, and which records that the two must be kept in step. That page declares no named rulesets, so Besoh inflection is generated here rather than by a sound-change derivation; engine behaviour and its divergences are logged at Module talk:Auphen.

The single-form functions _plural, _dative, _locative, _loc_pl, _stative, _perfect and _pron are exported for calling from other modules. Each takes and returns a plain string, so none of them can be reached through #invoke.