Scholarly reference for Ṣango
Ṣango
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual yoruba names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
SHANGO
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.
Ṣango
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
ṣango.com → xn--ango-9h5a.com
The non-ASCII characters in Ṣango are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Ṣango. PUNYCODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How shango becomes Ṣango
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | s | → | Ṣ | Special | S with dot below |
| 02 | h | → | Drop | Not written | |
| 03 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 04 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 05 | g | → | g | Same | Same |
| 06 | o | → | o | Same | Same |
Why Ṣango is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Yoruba form Ṣango preserves neither stress nor length in this Unicode restoration. This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 Basic name — still a scholarly step above plain ASCII, but without the distinctive phonetic features that define higher tiers.
See how Ṣango behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
shango
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