U+07DB "ߛ" NKo Letter Sa Unicode Character

U+07DB "ߛ" NKo Letter Sa is a glyph from the NKo script, which was invented by Solomana Kanté in 1949 and is used primarily by speakers of the Manding languages in West Africa, such as Maninka, Bambara, and Dyula. This specific letter represents the voiceless alveolar fricative sound /s/ and is part of the consonant inventory of the script, which is written from right to left. The NKo script was created to provide a unified writing system for Manding languages, reflecting their phonetic structure while promoting literacy and cultural identity, with each character having a distinct numerical value in the script's writing tradition as well.