The Authentic Orthography
Iron, War, Labour · God of iron
Why ogun.com is the correct form
Ogun
The name in its original Yoruba form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
OGUN
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.
Ogun
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
ogun.com → ogun.com
The non-ASCII characters in Ogun are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Ogun.
How ogun becomes Ogun
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | o | → | O | Same | Same |
| 02 | g | → | g | Same | Same |
| 03 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 04 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
Why Ogun is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Yoruba original Ogun 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 Ogun behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
ogun
→
Ogun