describeGroup(group, locale, opts) -> one localized sentence pair for a people
group's profile row: where they live, what they speak, and how reached they are.
Pure, exported, no refs or fetch; strings and the country resolver are injected.
The level is phrased from GSEC, a number, never from GSECDescription, which is
English prose the API hands us -- interpolating it would leave the widest column
of every non-English packet in English.
THE LANGUAGE FIELD WAS BOTH WRONG FIELDS AT ONCE.
primary_language is in normalize.js's NESTED_FIELDS, so the API's { value, label }
is flattened to its VALUE: an ISO 639-3 code. Reading it prints "and speak abf".
The name is in primary_language_label, and it arrives INDEX-ORDERED -- "Arabic,
Shihhi" for what a reader calls "Shihhi Arabic". 725 of the 12,379 rows carry an
inverted label, one row in seventeen.
The un-inversion is not a second copy: useLanguageFamilyLegendData already built
one to make a lookup key, so the split moves to library/utils/languageLabel.js and
both call it. Doing that surfaced why the two uses are not the same use -- 13 real
names carry a comma INSIDE a parenthetical ("Boano (Indonesia, Central Sulawesi)"),
and a naive split reverses those into "Central Sulawesi) Boano (Indonesia". As a
lookup key that garbage simply misses and the next candidate is tried; printed in a
sentence there is no such safety net. The shared split is top-level-only, and a
trailing parenthetical is hoisted past the reversal so "Naga, Tangkhul (India)"
reads "Tangkhul Naga (India)".
The legend's own behaviour is unchanged, checked rather than assumed: old and new
lookup compared over all 3,498 labels in langFamilyByLanguage plus every
LanguageName in the dataset, 0 differences.
countryName.js is NOT imported. It resolves only through the Vite '@map/' alias and
imports two JSON files without an import attribute -- fine in a bundle, fatal to a
node gate. Importing it would make this module unloadable by the test that proves it
right in eleven languages, so the renderer passes it in, and a missing injection
degrades down countryName.js's own ladder (localized -> English label -> alpha-3)
rather than blanking the clause.
check-describe-group asserts every GSEC level, each missing field, both locales,
truncation, the inverted label, the parenthetical that must not be shredded, and
that a bare language code is dropped rather than printed. Negative-tested: reading
primary_language, skipping the un-inversion, a naive split, and dropping the
parenthetical hoist each turn it red; restored, it is green.
Not yet wired into the renderer and not yet in gates:pre -- register with
"check:describe-group": "node internal/check-describe-group.mjs".
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