Yoruba

Yoruba is a tonal language. The diacritics are used to mark the tone of a vowel. The dot accent below is also used, alternatively the vertical line below, to mark open variants of vowels, namely ẹ and ọ for [ɛ] and [ɔ]; or below the s to transcribe the [ʃ], a postalveolar consonant like sh in English. Tones are marked with acute, grave and macron for high, low and mid tone; rising and falling tones are generally indicated with duplication of the vowel but with two different tone marks, sometimes this is merged into a caron for rising tone or a tilde for other possibilities. The digram gb is used as a letter of its own.

Composed Characters

Precomposed accented characters for Yoruba were rejected from Unicode, they must be composed with prexisting characters. A font can either deal with this by having the Yoruba accented characters in the PUA, as ligatures of the composed one; the second option which is better in general is to specify anchors for marks on the base glyphs. Unfortunately not all font renderers can handle either ligature or mark placement for Latin Script.

Alphabet Order

a (á à ā) b d e (é è ē ẹ/e̩ ẹ́/é̩ ẹ̀/è̩ ẹ̄/ē̩) f g gb h i (í ì ī) j k l m n o (ó ò ō ọ/o̩ ọ́/ó̩ ọ̀/ò̩ ọ̄/ō̩) p r s (ṣ) t u (ú ù ū) v w y z

Accented and special characters

á â ǎ é ê ě ẹ ệ í î ǐ ó ô ǒ ọ ̀ ́ ̃ ̄ ̌

Á Â Ǎ É Ê Ě Ẹ Ệ Í Î Ǐ Ó Ô Ǒ Ọ

Accented and special character names and Unicode values

aacute#00E1
Aacute#00C1
acircumflex#00E2
Acircumflex#00C2
acaron#01CE
Acaron#01CD
eacute#00E9
Eacute#00C9
ecircumflex#00EA
Ecircumflex#00CA
ecaron#011B
Ecaron#011A
edotbelow#1EB9
Edotbelow#1EB8
ecircumflexdotbelow#1EC7
Ecircumflexdotbelow#1EC6
iacute#00ED
Iacute#00CD
icircumflex#00EE
Icircumflex#00CE
icaron#01D0
Icaron#01CF
oacute#00F3
Oacute#00D3
ocircumflex#00F4
Ocircumflex#00D4
ocaron#01D2
Ocaron#01D1
odotbelow#1ECD
Odotbelow#1ECC
gravecomb#0300
acutecomb#0301
tildecomb#0303
macroncomb#0304
caroncomb#030C

Accents used

Acute
Circumflex
Dot Accent
Grave
Háček (Caron)
Macron

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