Module:az-last-vowel/documentation

This module helps you retrieve the last vowel in an Azerbaijani word, which is necessary for maintaining the vowel harmony.

Vowels in Azerbaijani

There are 9 vowels in Azerbaijani: a, e, ə, ı, i, o, ö, u, and ü.

As some Azerbaijani suffixes have multiple forms, the last vowel plays a key role when appending suffixes to words. For example, the genitive case suffix, -ın has 4 different forms: -ın, -in, -un, and -ün, and which one to use depends on the last vowel of the lemma. You can read more about it in Module:az-harmony.

How to use

From modules

You can use _main() function, passing the word as an argument, and the function will return the vowel as a string:

local get_last_vowel = require("Module:az-last-vowel")._main
local last_vowel = get_last_vowel("söz") -- returns "ö"

From templates

There is a main() function that wraps the core _main() for templates. You can invoke it with the word as an argument, and it'll return the vowel:

{{#invoke:az-last-vowel|main|nümunə}} <!-- returns "ə" -->