make-plural

Make-plural is a JavaScript module that translates Unicode CLDR pluralization rules to JavaScript functions. It includes both a live parser (make-plural.js) as well as the generated output for the latest edition of the CLDR (plurals.js); the latter is just over 2kB in size when minified & gzipped, and covers 199 languages, so it's probably what you want unless you really know what you're doing.

Make-plural is written in ECMAScript 6 and transpiled using Babel and Browserify to CommonJS and AMD and ES6 module formats, as well as being suitable for use in browser environments.

Installation

npm install make-plural

bower install make-plural

git clone https://github.com/eemeli/make-plural.js.git
cd make-plural.js
npm install
make all

or download the latest release from here

Precompiled plurals

plurals.js contains an UMD module that can be included with node's require or AMD's define. In a browser environment, it will populate a global object plurals. Said module contains 199 functions (one per language), each taking as a first parameter the value to be classified (either a number or a string), and as an optional second parameter, a boolean that if true, applies ordinal rather than cardinal rules.

pluralCategories.js has a similar structure to plurals.js, but contains an array of the pluralization categories the cardinal and ordinal rules each language's pluralization function may output.

If your language isn't directly included in either of the above, try removing any trailing parts that are separated from the stem by - or _.

Precompiled use: Node

> plurals = require('make-plural/plurals')
{ af: [Function],
  ak: [Function],
  am: [Function],
  // snip 193 lines...
  yo: [Function],
  zh: [Function],
  zu: [Function] }

> plurals.en(1)  // 1st param is the value
'one'

> plurals.en(2)
'other'

> plurals.en(2, true)  // 2nd param, if true-ish, is for ordinal rules
'two'

> console.log(plurals.en.toString())
function (n, ord) {
  var s = String(n).split('.'), v0 = !s[1], t0 = Number(s[0]) == n,
      n10 = t0 && s[0].slice(-1), n100 = t0 && s[0].slice(-2);
  if (ord) return (n10 == 1 && n100 != 11) ? 'one'
      : (n10 == 2 && n100 != 12) ? 'two'
      : (n10 == 3 && n100 != 13) ? 'few'
      : 'other';
  return (n == 1 && v0) ? 'one' : 'other';
}

> pluralCategories = require('make-plural/pluralCategories')
{ af: { cardinal: [ 'one', 'other' ], ordinal: [ 'other' ] },
  ak: { cardinal: [ 'one', 'other' ], ordinal: [ 'other' ] },
  am: { cardinal: [ 'one', 'other' ], ordinal: [ 'other' ] },
  ar:
   { cardinal: [ 'zero', 'one', 'two', 'few', 'many', 'other' ],
     ordinal: [ 'other' ] },
  // snip 255 lines...
  zh: { cardinal: [ 'other' ], ordinal: [ 'other' ] },
  zu: { cardinal: [ 'one', 'other' ], ordinal: [ 'other' ] } }

Precompiled use: Web

<script src="path/to/make-plural/plurals.min.js"></script>
<script>
  var ru = plurals.ru
  console.log('1: ' + plurals.ru(1) + ', 3.0: ' + plurals.ru(3.0) +
              ', "1.0": ' + plurals.ru('1.0') + ', "0": ' + plurals.ru('0'));
  console.log(plurals.ru.toString());
</script>

With outputs:

1: one, 3.0: few, "1.0": other, "0": many

function(n, ord) {
  var s = String(n).split('.'), i = s[0], v0 = !s[1], i10 = i.slice(-1),
      i100 = i.slice(-2);
  if (ord) return 'other';
  return (v0 && i10 == 1 && i100 != 11) ? 'one'
      : (v0 && (i10 >= 2 && i10 <= 4) && (i100 < 12
          || i100 > 14)) ? 'few'
      : (v0 && i10 == 0 || v0 && (i10 >= 5 && i10 <= 9)
          || v0 && (i100 >= 11 && i100 <= 14)) ? 'many'
      : 'other';
}

Note that with plurals.min.js, the stringified function would be rendered as:

function (e,t){var r=String(e).split("."),n=r[0],o=!r[1],c=n.slice(-1),
i=n.slice(-2);return t?"other":o&&1==c&&11!=i?"one":o&&c>=2&&4>=c&&(12>i||i>14)?
"few":o&&0==c||o&&c>=5&&9>=c||o&&i>=11&&14>=i?"many":"other"}

Live compiler: `make-plural.js`

MakePlural.load(cldr, ...)

Loads CLDR rules from one or more cldr variables, each of which must be an object formatted like this.

No plural data is included by default, so you'll need to call this at least once, or otherwise fill the MakePlural.rules object.

The default CLDR rules are included in make-plural, and may be loaded as seen in the examples below.

new MakePlural(lc, { cardinals, ordinals })

Returns a function that takes an argument n and returns its plural category for the given locale lc.

The returned function has an overloaded toString(name) method that may be used to generate a clean string representation of the function, with an optional name name.

The optional second parameter may contain the following boolean members:

cardinals — if true, rules for cardinal values (1 day, 2 days, etc.) are included
ordinals — if true, rules for ordinal values (1st, 2nd, etc.) are included

If both cardinals and ordinals are true, the returned function takes a second parameter ord. Then, if ord is true, the function will return the ordinal rather than cardinal category applicable to n in locale lc.

If the second parameter is undefined, the values are taken from MakePlural.cardinals (default true) and MakePlural.ordinals (default false).

Live use: Node

> MakePlural = require('make-plural/make-plural').load(
... require('make-plural/data/plurals.json'),
... require('make-plural/data/ordinals.json'))
{ [Function: MakePlural]
  cardinals: true,
  ordinals: false,
  rules: 
   { cardinal: 
      { af: [Object],
        ak: [Object],
        am: [Object],
        // snip 193 lines...
        yo: [Object],
        zh: [Object],
        zu: [Object] },
     ordinal: 
      { af: [Object],
        am: [Object],
        ar: [Object],
        // snip 78 lines...
        vi: [Object],
        zh: [Object],
        zu: [Object] } } }

> sk = new MakePlural('sk')  // Note: not including ordinals by default
{ [Function]
  _obj:
   { lc: 'sk',
     cardinals: true,
     ordinals: false,
     categories: { cardinal: [Object], ordinal: [] },
     parser: { v0: 1, i: 1 },
     tests: { obj: [Circular], ordinal: {}, cardinal: [Object] },
     fn: [Circular] },
  categories: { cardinal: [ 'one', 'few', 'many', 'other' ], ordinal: [] },
  test: [Function],
  toString: [Function] }

> sk(1)
'one'

> sk(3.0)
'few'

> sk('1.0')
'many'

> sk('0')
'other'

> console.log(sk.toString())
function(n) {
  var s = String(n).split('.'), i = s[0], v0 = !s[1];
  return (i == 1 && v0 ) ? 'one'
      : ((i >= 2 && i <= 4) && v0 ) ? 'few'
      : (!v0   ) ? 'many'
      : 'other';
}

make-plural.js may also be used in browser environments; see test/index.html for an example of its use.

CLI Usage

$ ./bin/make-plural > plurals.js

$ ./bin/make-plural fr
function fr(n, ord) {
  if (ord) return (n == 1) ? 'one' : 'other';
  return (n >= 0 && n < 2) ? 'one' : 'other';
}

$ ./bin/make-plural --locale fr --value 1.5
one

$ ./bin/make-plural 1.5 -l fr --ordinal
other

Please see the source of src/index.js for more details.

Dependencies

Make-plural has no required runtime dependencies. CLDR plural rule data is included in JSON format; make-plural supports the LDML Language Plural Rules as used in CLDR release 24 and later.

The CLI binary bin/make-plural does use minimist as an argument parser, but that is not required for any other use.

Using MakePlural.load(), you may make use of external sources of CLDR data. For example, the following works when using together with cldr-data:

> cldr = require('cldr-data');
> MakePlural = require('make-plural/make-plural').load(
    cldr('supplemental/plurals'),
    cldr('supplemental/ordinals')
  );
> en = new MakePlural('en');
> en(3, true)
'few'

rxaviers/make-plural.js