siSwati Diacritics Keyboard

Type siSwati text with correct tone markers. Click any character below to insert it at your cursor.

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Character palette
Plain High tone (H) Low tone (L) Mid / other

Compose mode shortcuts:   ' + vowel = high tone  •  ` + vowel = low tone  •  ^ + vowel = mid tone

Tone guide

High tone (H)
á   é   í   ó   ú

Acute accent. Rising or high pitch. Marks lexically high-toned syllables.

Low tone (L)
à   è   ì   ò   ù

Grave accent. Falling or low pitch. Marks low-toned syllables.

Mid / Circumflex
â   ê   î   ô   û

Circumflex. Used in some Bantu linguistic notation for mid or falling-rising tone.

* Exact diacritic usage for siSwati is pending expert linguistic validation. These marks follow standard Bantu tonal notation conventions.