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Yorùbá is a tonal language in which contour tones pose persistent orthographic challenges. These are especially notable for personal names and lexical items whose conventional spellings avoid vowel le...
arXiv:2609.38627v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Yor\`ub\'a is a tonal language in which contour tones pose persistent orthographic challenges. These are especially notable for personal names and lexi...
arXiv:2609.38627v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Yor\`ub\'a is a tonal language in which contour tones pose persistent orthographic challenges. These are especially notable for personal names and lexi...
arXiv:2609.14817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Yor\`ub\'a, pitch alone separates \d{o}k\d{o} (husband, Mid), \d{o}k\d{\`o} (vehicle, Low), and \d{o}k\d{\'o} (hoe, High) -- the diacritics ARE the...
arXiv:2609.24310v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-speech models for Bantu tonal languages are challenged by a tonal system that is rooted in both the lexis (i.e., the inventory of words, stem...
arXiv:2608.29170v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes the Sinitic Romanization Ecosystem, a cross-lingual Sinitic romanization design framework with supporting digital infrastructure an...