U+10280 "𐊀" Lycian Letter A Unicode Character

U+10280 "𐊀" Lycian Letter A is a glyph representing the first letter of the Lycian alphabet, an ancient script used in the region of Lycia in southwestern Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) from roughly the 5th to the 4th centuries BCE. This character belongs to the Lycian block of Unicode, which was added to version 5.1 in 2008, and it corresponds to the Greek letter Alpha in both shape and phonetic value, representing the vowel sound /a/. The Lycian script itself is largely derived from the Greek alphabet, with additional characters for indigenous sounds, and it was used primarily for inscriptions on stone and coinage, preserving a language that is still not fully understood.