Scholarly Name Reference
King of the white cloth
Scholarly reference for Obatala
Obatala
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual yoruba names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
OBATALA
This name is already attested in the Latin alphabet. The Unicode form Obatala is identical to ASCII apart from capitalization, so no diacritic, stress, or script information was erased.
Obatala
Because the name is already in Latin letters, the Unicode restoration does not add diacritics or change the script. Its value here is canonical spelling and consistent cataloguing, not the recovery of lost marks.
obatala.com → obatala.com
Because Obatala uses only ASCII characters, no Punycode encoding is required. The browser displays the name as-is. This domain is currently registered by another party.
How obatala becomes Obatala
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | o | → | O | Same | Same |
| 02 | b | → | b | Same | Same |
| 03 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 04 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 05 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 06 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 07 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
Why Obatala is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Yoruba name Obatala is attested in the Latin alphabet. The Unicode restoration is identical to ASCII, so no diacritic or script recovery is needed. It is catalogued as a single-tier Tier-2 name because the scholarly form carries no stress or length marks.
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