The Authentic Orthography
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Why ọrúnmìlà.com is the correct form
Ọrúnmìlà
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual yoruba names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
ORUNMILA
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.
Ọrúnmìlà
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
ọrúnmìlà.com → xn--rnml-3na4exes761a.com
The non-ASCII characters in Ọrúnmìlà are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Ọrúnmìlà.
How orunmila becomes Ọrúnmìlà
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | o | → | Ọ | Special | Special character |
| 02 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 03 | u | → | ú | Stress | Stress on u |
| 04 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 05 | m | → | m | Same | Same |
| 06 | i | → | ì | Stress | Stress on i |
| 07 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 08 | a | → | à | Stress | Stress on a |
Why Ọrúnmìlà is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Yoruba original Ọrúnmìlà 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 Ọrúnmìlà behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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