Akọ̀wé

Type Yoruba. With tone.

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Standard keyboards treat Yoruba as an afterthought

The problem

  • No dedicated keys for ẹ, ọ, ṣ — buried in long-press menus
  • Tone marks require hunting through special character panels
  • No autocomplete understands Yoruba morphology
  • The digraph gb takes two keystrokes on every keyboard

Akọ̀wé

  • All 7 vowels on the home row — a, e, ẹ, i, o, ọ, u
  • Flick up for high tone, flick down for low tone — instant
  • Dictionary + bigram predictions trained on Yoruba text
  • Dedicated gb key — one tap

Tone input, reimagined

Flick a vowel to add tone — no menus, no hunting

a á à
Flick up — high tone

a becomes á (acute accent)

Flick down — low tone

a becomes à (grave accent)

Desktop: dead keys

Option+E then vowel for high tone, Option+` for low tone

Auto-tone prediction

Type without tone marks — Akọ̀wé adds them for you

omo
Tier 1
Lookup
68%
Tier 2
Bigram
25%
Tier 3
Neural
7%
ọmọ

See it in action

Auto-tone on iOS, flick gestures on Android

iOS
ọmọ
ọmọ́
omo
p
t
f
k
y
r
w
g
j
h
e
ẹ
n
i
a
o
ọ
l
u
⇧
gb
b
d
m
s
ṣ
⌫
123
⏎
Android
á
à
a
p
t
f
k
y
r
w
g
j
h
e
ẹ
n
i
a
o
ọ
l
u
⇧
gb
b
d
m
s
ṣ
⌫
123
⏎

Purpose-built for Yorùbá

Frequency-optimized layout from analysis of 12,041 Yoruba words

All 7 vowels on home row
Dedicated gb key

Every platform

Android

Available

iOS

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macOS

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Windows

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Linux

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Android

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