Kĩkũyũ

The orthography of Gĩkũyũ includes a number of accented characters to represent the entire vowel system (namely ĩ and ũ). Not available on standard computer keyboards, these characters are usually typed as the nearest available characters (i and u).

A grapheme-based approach to accent restoration in Gĩkũyũ, Wagacha, Peter W., De Pauw Guy, and Githinji P. W. , Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, May, 2006, Genoa, Italy, p.1937-1940, (2006)

Development of a corpus for Gĩkũyũ using machine learning techniques, Wagacha, Peter W., De Pauw Guy, and Getao K. , Proceedings of LREC workshop - Networking the development of language resources for African languages, Genoa, Italy, (2006)