The Authentic Orthography
Ocean, Motherhood, Protection · Mother whose children are fish
Why yemọja.com is the correct form
Yemọja
The name in its original Yoruba form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
YEMOJA
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.
Yemọja
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
yemọja.com → xn--yemja-481b.com
The non-ASCII characters in Yemọja are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Yemọja.
How yemoja becomes Yemọja
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | y | → | Y | Same | Same |
| 02 | e | → | e | Same | Same |
| 03 | m | → | m | Same | Same |
| 04 | o | → | ọ | Special | O with dot below |
| 05 | j | → | j | Same | Same |
| 06 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
Why Yemọja is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Yoruba original Yemọja 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 Yemọja behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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