The Authentic Orthography
War, Kingship, Assyrian Patron · National god of Assyria (Akkadian Aššur)
Why aššur.com is the correct form
Aššur
The name in its original Mesopotamian form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
ASHUR
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.
Aššur
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
aššur.com → xn--aur-0zaa.com
The non-ASCII characters in Aššur are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Aššur.
How ashur becomes Aššur
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | a | → | A | Same | Same |
| 02 | s | → | š | Special | S-caron: voiceless postalveolar /ʃ/ |
| 03 | h | → | š | Special | S-caron: doubled consonant |
| 04 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 05 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
Why Aššur is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Mesopotamian original Aššur contains only no distinctive phonetic features. 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 Aššur behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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