Module:families/documentation

This module is used to retrieve and manage Wiktionary's various language families and the information associated with them. See Families for more information.

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

The information itself is stored in Module:families/data. This module should not be used directly by any other module, the data should only be accessed through the functions provided by Module:families.

Finding and retrieving families
The module exports a number of functions that are used to find families.

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