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Use standard Yorùbá orthography with tone marks (à á) and dotted vowels (ẹ ọ ṣ). «sh» is accepted for ṣ. Converts automatically as you type.
IPA transcription — editable
Word-by-word breakdown — tap any word for articulatory diagram
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Yorùbá tone & sound key
- á / ẹ́ / ọ́ high tone → IPA acute on vowel symbol; à / ẹ̀ / ọ̀ low tone → IPA grave; unmarked vowel = mid tone, no mark in IPA.
- Double-diacritic vowels decoded correctly in any encoding order: ẹ́ → /ɛ́/ · ẹ̀ → /ɛ̀/ · ọ́ → /ɔ́/ · ọ̀ → /ɔ̀/.
- Nasalisation: vowel + word-final n/m (not before another vowel) → nasalised vowel, nasal dropped. ìtàn → /ìtã̀/ · orín → /oɾĩ́/ · àánú → /àánú/.
- Syllabic nasal (lone n/m between consonants, e.g. progressive ‹ń›) → n̩/m̩ with tone mark (IPA standard).
- Consonants: gb → ɡ͡b · kp/p → k͡p · j → dʒ · ṣ/sh → ʃ · r → ɾ · y → j.
Limitations & scope
This is a heuristic rule-based engine, not a corpus-validated phonemic dictionary. It handles standard Yorùbá orthography faithfully but cannot resolve:
- Tone sandhi and nasal assimilation across word boundaries.
- Dialectal variation — Ọyọ, Ekiti, Ijẹbu, Ondo, Igbomina, Àkókó, etc.
- Loanwords with non-standard toning or consonant realisations.
- Reduplicated forms where tonal melody shifts.
For publication-grade IPA, review with a native-speaker linguist familiar with current Yorùbá phonological scholarship.