Marking Contour Tones in Yor` u b' a: A Typographic and Computational Proposal

arXiv:2609.38627 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-10-08

Terminology

• Frustration — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Writing Across the World's Languages: Deep Internationalization for Gboard, the Google Keyboard
• Yor` u b' a in Unicode: An Overview of a Problem
• A Situational Speech Synthesizer for Yoruba: System Design, Phonological Rule Architecture, and Orthographic Extensions for Contour

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