U+0AE2 "ૢ" Gujarati Vowel Sign Vocalic L Unicode Character

U+0AE2 "ૢ" Gujarati Vowel Sign Vocalic L is a combining mark used in the Gujarati script to represent a vocalic L sound, a rare vowel that occurs in Sanskrit loanwords. This diacritic modifies a consonant character to indicate the presence of this syllabic consonant, which functions as a vowel in certain linguistic contexts. It is typically placed above or attached to the consonant base, following the orthographic conventions of the Gujarati writing system. The character is part of Unicode’s Gujarati block and is employed primarily in scholarly or liturgical texts for accurate transliteration of ancient Indo-Aryan phonetics.