A New Method of Latin-To-Balinese Script Transliteration based on Bali Simbar Font

As one of Balinese cultural richness, Balinese script writing is going to extinct because of its decreasing use. This research is one of the ways to preserve Balinese script writing using technological approach. Through collaboration between Software Engineering and Language discipline, this research focused on the development of a new method of Latin-to-Balinese script transliteration that can be used for a web/mobile learning application to give transliteration knowledge as one aspect of Balinese script writing. In this research area, this method utilized Bali Simbar font and was developed based on identified seventeen kinds of special words and three stages of string pattern process. Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern was used by this method, where each was implemented by using dictionary data structure (as a repository for words belong to seventeen kinds of special words), HTML (as a web/mobile application User Interface), and JavaScript (as controller between Model and View, where transliteration algorithm was written in here). The novelty of this method came from the accommodation of knowledge belong to seventeen kinds of special words through dictionary data structure look-up mechanism. Through the experiment, this method has passed over 98% (148 of 151) testing cases of The Balinese Alphabet writing rules and examples document. This result outperformed the best result of known existing method based on Bali Simbar font, i.e. Transliterasi Aksara Bali, that only has accuracy over 68% (103 of 151) cases of the same testing document.