The Authentic Orthography
Creation, Purity, Peace · King of the white cloth
Why obatala.com is the correct form
Obatala
The name in its original Yoruba form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
OBATALA
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
Obatala
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
obatala.com → obatala.com
The non-ASCII characters in Obatala are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Obatala.
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 original Obatala contains only no distinctive phonetic features. This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 name. The Unicode restoration preserves what can be preserved — honoring the single feature that distinguishes it from plain ASCII.
See how Obatala behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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