Dear Paa Kwesi,
no accents and no sub-lines? I think that would create too much ambiguity in Yoruba. The 1974 official orthography, the most recent one I am aware of, states something as following:
(7) The diacritic marking open vowels should be a dot or a vertical line but not a horizontal line.
(13) It is not necessary to mark the tone on every syllable except in dictionaries, poetry, dialects and in special writing. However, in any case, tone marks should be employed in a way that will facilitate comprehension.
As you see, the people responsible for the current official orthography of the Yoruba language saw it fit to use diacritics to mark the open vowels and to use tone marks when their absence could lead to ambiguity.
It seems the two open vowels represented in Yoruba by e + sub-line and o + subline also exist in Akan. They look a bit like a 3 and a c both rotated by 180° (the last two characters in the list of vowels below). What would happen, if you wrote these two letters of the Akan alphabet as e and o?
Akan pronunciation
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/akan.htm
Greetings, Anja
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