Scholarly Name Reference
also written Yemoja
Mother whose children are fish
Scholarly reference for Yemọja
Yemọja
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual yoruba names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
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. This domain is currently registered by another party.
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-1
The Yoruba restoration Yemọja preserves at least one distinctive feature its ASCII form loses — a diacritic or a distinctive letter that marks the original phonology. This makes it a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Yemọja behaves in the PUNICODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
yemoja
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Yemọja