Tulis

Type Basa Ugi in Latin script. Get Lontara, plus an explicit statement of what was discarded and where.

Latin (Basa Ugi)

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matta A worked example. Type above to replace it.

Lontara

matat

The script uses no word spacing. The connector strokes mark the boundaries instead. A rhombus marks what was dropped.

What is lost here

gemination×1

Single and doubled consonants are written alike.

t | tt
"t" is identical to the onset that follows it, so the two are written as one letter. A geminate is written as a single letter. The doubling is not recoverable from the writing. Reading it back cannot tell "t" from "tt".
Rule lontara.gemination.collapse · Input “t”
Citation Derived from inventory.json block.hasVirama = false and PRD §2 (`mata` / `matta` / `manta` are written identically). A syllable-final consonant identical to the onset of the syllable that follows it is a geminate; with no virama there is no way to write it, so it collapses into the single following letter.

Read back

1 other form is written the same way

mata

Written to Lontara, your word lands on the same string as these. A reader has to choose between them from vocabulary and context — the script does not decide it. These forms come from the lexicon, not from a guess.

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Codepoint view

U+1A06BUGINESE LETTER MA
U+1A08BUGINESE LETTER TA

Always available. If the aksara fails to render on your device, these codepoints still carry the answer.

Rule trace

derivedsegment
m + a
Input
[0,2) “ma”
Output
[0,1) “ᨆ”
Citation Derived from inventory.json: the block has no virama (block.hasVirama = false), so the script writes only (C)V units — a consonant letter carrying the inherent vowel /a/, optionally with a vowel sign replacing it. A Latin form is therefore parsed as the longest onset present in inventory.consonants followed by a vowel; a consonant that cannot begin such a unit is syllable-final. The derivation is stated here in full so it can be disputed as a whole rather than accepted piecemeal.
citedcompose
U+1A06
Input
[0,2) “ma”
Output
[0,1) “ᨆ”
Citation Unicode code chart U1A00.pdf, block Buginese. Each consonant letter U+1A00..U+1A16 carries the inherent vowel /a/; a vowel sign U+1A17..U+1A1B replaces it. The Latin value of each letter and sign is its Unicode character name.
derivedloss
gemination: "t"
Input
[2,3) “t”
Output
[1,1) ∅
Citation Derived from inventory.json block.hasVirama = false and PRD §2 (`mata` / `matta` / `manta` are written identically). A syllable-final consonant identical to the onset of the syllable that follows it is a geminate; with no virama there is no way to write it, so it collapses into the single following letter.
derivedsegment
t + a
Input
[3,5) “ta”
Output
[1,2) “ᨈ”
Citation Derived from inventory.json: the block has no virama (block.hasVirama = false), so the script writes only (C)V units — a consonant letter carrying the inherent vowel /a/, optionally with a vowel sign replacing it. A Latin form is therefore parsed as the longest onset present in inventory.consonants followed by a vowel; a consonant that cannot begin such a unit is syllable-final. The derivation is stated here in full so it can be disputed as a whole rather than accepted piecemeal.
citedcompose
U+1A08
Input
[3,5) “ta”
Output
[1,2) “ᨈ”
Citation Unicode code chart U1A00.pdf, block Buginese. Each consonant letter U+1A00..U+1A16 carries the inherent vowel /a/; a vowel sign U+1A17..U+1A1B replaces it. The Latin value of each letter and sign is its Unicode character name.