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