Why ajé.com is the correct form
Ajé
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual yoruba names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
AJE
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
Ajé
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
ajé.com → xn--aj-cja.com
The non-ASCII characters in Ajé are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Ajé.
How aje becomes Ajé
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | a | → | A | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | j | → | j | Same | Same |
| 03 | e | → | é | Stress | Stress on e |
Why Ajé is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Yoruba original Ajé contains only stress (acute accent). This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 name. The Unicode restoration preserves what can be preserved — honoring the single feature that distinguishes it from plain ASCII.
See how Ajé behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
aje
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Ajé