The Authentic Orthography
Wealth, Ocean, Depths · Owner of the ocean
Why olókun.com is the correct form
Olókun
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual yoruba names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
OLOKUN
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.
Olókun
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
olókun.com → xn--olkun-1ta.com
The non-ASCII characters in Olókun are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Olókun.
How olokun becomes Olókun
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | o | → | O | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 03 | o | → | ó | Stress | Stress on o |
| 04 | k | → | k | Same | Same |
| 05 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 06 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
Why Olókun is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Yoruba original Olókun 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 Olókun behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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